* February 18 – Benin is put to the torch by the Punitive Expedition.

* 1916-Pancho Villa raid into America ; the Mexican Punitive Expedition under John J. Pershing chases Villa deep into Mexico ; verge of war

He was involved in the Mexican Punitive Expedition.

This was known as the Punitive Mexican Expedition or Pancho Villa Expedition.

He served during the Mexican Punitive Expedition, as an Aide de Camp to MG George Bell, Jr. at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Alain Boisragon, one of the survivors of the Benin Massacre, includes references to the practice of human sacrifice in the city in a firsthand account written in 1898 ( one year after the Punitive Expedition ).

The operation was named Benin Punitive Expedition, and on 9 February 1897 the invasion of Benin kingdom began ,.

In 1897, the British launched a Punitive Expedition, sacked Benin city and exiled Oba Ovonramwen, taking control of the area in order to establish the British colony of Nigeria.

He was adjutant of the Mexican Punitive Expedition in 1916-17 under General John J. Pershing.

Spaatz served in the First Aero Squadron which was attached to General John J. Pershing during the Punitive Expedition.

Carlson had been a soldier in the Punitive Expedition to capture Pancho Villa in Mexico and World War I, became a Marine officer during the American occupation of Nicaragua, and served as an Intelligence Officer of the 4th Marines in China.

He used it during the Mexican Punitive Expedition of 1916 to kill two of Pancho Villa's lieutenants, and carried it until his death in 1945 shortly after the end of World War II.

Bonillas had been part of the three member diplomatic delegation responsible of securing the unconditional withdrawal of the American forces of the Punitive Expedition from Mexico.

The regiment was mobilized on 23 June 1916 and served along the Mexican border for five months as part of the Mexican Punitive Expedition under General John J. Pershing, although no National Guard units fought Mexican troops.

* Punitive Expedition into Mexico: March 14, 1916 to February 7, 1917

During the 1916 Punitive Expedition by the United States into Mexico, then Major Young commanded the 2nd squadron of the 10th United States Cavalry.

They were seized by a British force in the Punitive Expedition of 1897 and given to the British Foreign Office.

The origins of the Boy's Town concept along the U. S .- Mexico border can be traced in part to the relationship that developed between the United States Army and various ad hoc entrepreneurs in northern Mexico during the Army's 1916 – 17 Punitive Expedition ; specifically when General John J. Pershing's forces were pursuing General Pancho Villa in Chihuahua.

During General Pershing's failed Punitive Expedition of 1916-1917, he used the fort as a forward logistics and supply base.

Whilst with the Forte he was involved in the Punitive Expedition of 1897 in Benin.

The famed Benin City, destroyed by the Punitive Expedition, was a large complex of homes in coursed mud, with hipped roofs of shingles or palm leaves.

* Elizabeth M. Chesser, " New Reform for Girl Criminals ; English Scheme Which Is Educational Rather Than Punitive ", ( article about extension of borstal system to include girls ), New York Times, 27 December 1908

In the book Punitive Medicine by Alexander Podrabinek, the term " punitive medicine ", which is identified with " punitive psychiatry ," is defined as " a tool in the struggle against dissidents who cannot be punished by legal means.

* Jamie Court, " Supremes Limit Punitive Damages ", March / April 2004.

The Boston Port Act ( the Trade Act 1774 ) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which became law on March 1, 1774, and is one of the measures ( variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts ) that were designed to secure Great Britain's jurisdictions over her American dominions.

Many Orthodox ( along with peoples of other faiths ) were also subjected to psychological punishment or torture and mind control experimentation in an attempt to force them give up their religious convictions ( see Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union ).

Commander and Staff of Musha Punitive force

Makhno escaped, but was soon forced into retreat as the full weight of the Red Army and the Cheka's Special Punitive Brigades was brought to bear against not only the Makhnovists, but all anarchists, even their admirers and sympathizers.

The leader of the commission was Alexandr Podrabinek who published a book Punitive Medicine containing a " white list " of two hundred of prisoners of conscience in Soviet mental hospitals and a " black list " of over one hundred medical staff and doctors who took part in committing people to psychiatric facilities for political reasons.

Under Commissar Jānis K. Bērziņš, the Special Punitive Brigades took hostages from the villages of deserters, to compel their surrender ; one in ten was executed.

Punitive damages or exemplary damages are damages intended to reform or deter the defendant and others from engaging in conduct similar to that which formed the basis of the lawsuit.

Punitive damages were reduced from $ 108 million to $ 4. 7 million.

Punitive Turkish nationalist exclusivist measures, such as a 1932 parliamentary law, barred Greek citizens living in Turkey from a series of 30 trades and professions from tailoring and carpentry to medicine, law and real estate.

Punitive damages are a focal point of the tort reform debate in the United States, where numerous highly publicized multi-million dollar verdicts have led to a fairly common perception that punitive damage awards tend to be excessive.

Approximately 500, 000 deserters were arrested in 1919 and close to 800, 000 in 1920, by troops of the ' Special Punitive Department ' of the Cheka, created to punish desertions.

* Punitive supersessionism is represented by figures such as Hippolytus, Origen, and Luther.

It is one of the measures ( variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts by those whose political agenda ran contrary to Parliament's ) that were designed to secure Britain's jurisdiction over the American dominions.

* Punitive Discharges – Bad Conduct Discharge issued by either Special Court Martial or General Court Martial only.

Punitive transfers of population transfers handled by Gulag and the system of involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union were planned in accordance with the needs of the colonization of the remote and underpopulated territories of the Soviet Union.

A number of various documents and reports were published in Information Bulletins by the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry For Political Purposes, Chronicle of Current Events by the Moscow Helsinki Group and in the books Punitive Medicine by Alexandr Podrabinek, Bezumnaya Psikhiatriya ( Mad Psychiatry ) by Anatoly Prokopenko, Judgement in Moscow by Vladimir Bukovsky, Sovietskaya Psikhiatriya — Zabluzhdeniya i Umysel ( Soviet Psychiatry: Fallacies and Intent ) by Ada Korotenko and Natalia Alikina, and Kaznimye Sumashestviem ( The Executed by Madness ).

These include Detainee Rights ; Residency Rights and Family Unification ; Freedom of Movement ; Violence by security forces and settlers toward Palestinians ; and Punitive House Demolition.