Crime vs. Punishment

Crimenoun

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.

Crimenoun

(countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.

Crimenoun

That which occasions crime.

Crimenoun

(uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.

Crimenoun

(uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.

Crimeverb

To subject to disciplinary punishment.

Crimeverb

(nonce word) To commit crime(s).

Crimenoun

Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

Crimenoun

Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.

Crimenoun

Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.

Crimenoun

That which occasion crime.

Crimenoun

(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act;

Crimenoun

an evil act not necessarily punishable by law;

Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes.

Punishmentnoun

The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

Punishmentnoun

A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

Punishmentnoun

A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

Punishmentnoun

(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

Punishmentnoun

The act of punishing.

Punishmentnoun

Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

Punishmentnoun

A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

Punishmentnoun

Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment.

Punishmentnoun

the act of punishing

Punishment

Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behavior that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable. It is, however, possible to distinguish between various different understandings of what punishment is.The reasoning for punishment may be to condition a child to avoid self-endangerment, to impose social conformity (in particular, in the contexts of compulsory education or military discipline), to defend norms, to protect against future harms (in particular, those from violent crime), and to maintain the law—and respect for rule of law—under which the social group is governed.