In some states, all or most felonies are placed into one of various classes according to their seriousness and their potential punishment upon conviction.

Also, there are potential negative social, legal, and economic consequences such as disputes with family and peers, job discrimination, financial losses, violence, blackmail, legal actions, restrictions on having or adopting children, criminalization, or in some countries even capital punishment.

Teachers or prefects in schools traditionally carried less elaborate canes which marked their right ( and potential threat ) to administer canings, and military officers carry a residual threat of physical punishment in their swagger sticks.

Because summary punishment for crimes is mostly illegal, it is impossible to stop any potential criminal activity in the network without enforcing a ban on strong cryptography.

Historical theories of punishment were based on the notion that fearful consequences would discourage potential offenders.

Due to the threat of punishment and the potential scrutiny he feared from his peers within the scientific community, Newton may have deliberately left his work on alchemical subjects unpublished.

It advocated deep decentralization of government power, abolition of official bilingualism and multiculturalism, democratization of the Canadian Senate, and suggested a potential return to capital punishment, and advocated significant privatization of public services.

Whether the person was paraded or simply taken to the point of punishment, the process of humiliation and potential repentance was the same.

Thus, additional research is required, using a more complex model of crime and control to include variables such as opportunities or incentives relative to a country's standard of living, potential punishment, chance of being caught, law enforcement efforts and expenditures on theft and property crime relative to other crimes, size of the country's criminal population, education levels, and other socio-economic factors.

Max's character had been humanised, and he now saw anybody as a potential Pringle's customer, and thus a ' tenant ' deserving of his care, rather than of punishment.

Moreover, it is possible that a potential punishment in the receiving country " shocks the conscience " to the extent that the Canadian government would breach fundamental justice if they extradited people there, and thus put them at risk of something shocking.

In the abstract, the type and the length of punishment prescribed by law are considered indicative of the norms of society regarding the seriousness of the offense and the potential threat posed to society by the offender.

Since the law makers still wanted punishments to scare potential criminals, but needed them to become less harsh, transportation became the more common punishment.

When the amir enacted punishment against Quromsi ( also a potential rival ), as well as several other officers, for military negligence, a conspiracy was launched against him.

Albright and Mann, reject this view and feel that Jesus was here literally referring to the valley and the potential of being thrown in there as punishment.

Such offences are used to deter potential offenders from dangerous behaviour rather than to impose punishment for moral wrongdoing.

Requests by Hispanic leaders, and testimony by Representatives Ronald Dellums and Phillip Burton as to the facts of the case, as well as many representatives who spoke against the Ethics Committee recommendation for censure, resulted in the potential censure being reduced to a reprimand ( the same punishment given the other two Representatives involved ).

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note: `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''.

Once we have made clear that we are genuinely concerned with a country's development potential, we can be blunt in suggesting the technical conditions that must be met for development to occur.

It is obvious that this is a potential and lucrative source of revenue for the assessors of those towns where a substantial amount of such property would be subject to taxation.

The 20-to-1 ratio for cochannel interference embodies one of the fundamental limiting principles which we must always take into account in AM assignments and allocations -- that signals from a particular station are potential sources of objectionable interference over an area much greater than that within which they provide useful service.

This we believe will substantially broaden the potential market for the equipment.

The potential market for the machine should be comparable to that of the Unifil loom winder.

He should personally consider the potential of a faculty member proposed for tenure, to guard against the mistake of making this profoundly serious commitment turn solely upon the man's former achievements.

It should sternly appraise curricula, faculty, organization, buildings, faculty work loads, and potential for growth in stature and size.

When we consider the electronic industry potential for human betterment, the prospect is staggering.

and although we have attempted to provide these status symbols, support of the ' dual-ladder ' plan has been half-hearted despite the creation of a salary potential for a research scientist commensurate with that of men in top managerial positions.

The total volume of the system above the reference height is Af, and H can be eliminated to obtain an equation for the total potential energy of the system in terms of H.

This is interesting for it combines both the thermodynamic concept of a minimum Gibbs function for equilibrium and minimum mechanical potential energy for equilibrium.

When necessary, we should make it clear that countries which choose to derive marginal advantages from the cold war or to exploit their potential for disrupting the security of the world will not only lose our sympathy but also risk their own prospects for orderly development.

The entry-limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition, but unless general inflation permits profit margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy, we might expect the public-limit price to approach the entry-limit price.

Specialty cooked items containing meat portions, as in `` frozen dinners '' might offer a potential use for radiopasteurization.

Extruded expandable styrene film or sheet -- claimed to be competitive price-wise with paper -- also showed much potential, particularly for packaging.

and use of the foam for garment interlining is only now getting off the ground, with volume potential in the offing.

The career of Eichmann made the Trial a potential showcase for anti-Semitic demoralization: fearful of being mistaken for a Jew, he seeks protection in his Nazi uniform ; ;

But in the next decades the nation needs to educate for the professions all the potential professional talent.

Because of its potential wide application to the colonial economy, the Stamp Act was judged by the colonists to be a more dangerous assault on their rights than the Sugar Act was.

" A 2004 critical review of research on firearms by a National Research Council panel also noted that academic studies of the assault weapon ban " did not reveal any clear impacts on gun violence " and noted " due to the fact that the relative rarity with which the banned guns were used in crime before the ban ... the maximum potential effect of the ban on gun violence outcomes would be very small ...."

According to Culebras, a Professor of Neurology at the State University of New York College of Medicine, " It is conceivable that the sleepwalker has the potential to drift into a confusional arousal, a state in which violence and assault are likely when prolonged and if given the adequate circumstances.

Despite the introduction of the intermediate 7. 9mm Kurz cartridge promoted by the Heer ( developed for the promising MP 43 assault rifle ), the Luftwaffe favored the long-range potential of the standard 7. 92 × 57mm Mauser rifle round and this caliber was one of the main design prerequisites.

Manstein issued an order to continue outflanking the city, although leaving room for a potential attack on Kharkov if there was little Soviet resistance, but Hausser decided to disregard the order and continue with his own assault.

They slept fitfully, concerned about a potential infantry assault against the fort.

Rokossovsky was among the first to realise the potential of armoured assault.

However, the Marines soon recognized the potential of the LVT as an assault vehicle.

He sent emissaries to Crimea, enjoining the Tatars to join him in a potential assault against their mutual enemy, the Commonwealth.

Vaudreuil meanwhile began massing troops at Fort Frontenac for a potential assault on Oswego.

However, Manticore has a trump card that has the potential to end the war, in the form of devastatingly effective new technology and weapons fully integrated into a new massive heavy assault force, known as 8th fleet.

Officers arrived at the Fauria home at about 9 a. m. Tuesday after being contacted about a potential assault and found Christian Fauria pulled over on the side of the road in his Cadillac Escalade.