Rivers and Lakes: Zhuangzi’s Critique of Just War and the Zhuangzian War Ethics and Peace Strategy by Ting-mien Lee

“…Instead, they resemble rivers and lakes with indistinct boundaries, rendering the concepts of justice and punishment largely irrelevant. A practical peace strategy, therefore, must abandon the pursuit of administering justice and punishing wrongdoers. …”
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Parameterless-Growing-SOM and Its Application to a Voice Instruction Learning System by Takashi Kuremoto, Takahito Komoto, Kunikazu Kobayashi, Masanao Obayashi

“…The policy is adjusted by the reward/punishment given by the user of the robot. A feeling map is also designed to express learning degrees of voice instructions. …”
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THE LANGUAGE OF LUCK: AN EXPLORATION INTO MEDIA DISCOURSE ON GAMBLING IN ROMANIAN NEWS OUTLETS by Alexandra-Teodora BERZOVAN, Ioana NEDELCU, Andreea Alina MOGOȘ

“…By using a Media Frames Corpus, the study unveils prevalent themes such as “Policy prescription and evaluation,” “Crime and punishment,” and “Public figures and celebrities”. Notably, sentiment analysis uncovers a pervasive negative tone across all sources, with Click exhibiting the highest negativity. …”
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Prevention of domestic violence against the elderly by O. O. Volodina, T. M. Malynovska

“…The state is the main actor in combating violence, and public authorities should help to create the environment of non-violence by taking the necessary measures and creating the system of protection of victims, punishment of perpetrators and prevention of violence. …”
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Modern problems of repeated criminality. Socio-psychological aspect by Y.E. Suslov, A.F. Fedorov, A.V. Bespalova

“…<strong><em>Key words</em></strong>: correction, punishment, youth, convicts, repeated criminality, criminal behavior, criminality, recidivism, penal system of the Russian Federation</p>…”
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Peculiarities of appointing and conducting forensic examinations under martial law by V. M. Kyselov, O. I. Butovych

“…It has been proved that criminal justice is a procedure regulated by the norms of current criminal procedure legislation for the activities of specially authorized subjects (bodies of inquiry, preliminary investigation, prosecution, etc.) to determine the circumstances relating to the commission of criminal offences, conduct pre-trial investigation, hold court hearings, render decisions and impose punishment for criminal offences. It has been noted that forensic examination is a special study carried out by highly qualified persons, in accordance with the established procedures and methods, with the aim of obtaining objective and reliable information about an object or event which is the subject of a trial. …”
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF KIDNAPPING ON THE COMMUNITY: A CASE STUDY OF ZURMI, ZAMFARA STATE by FAISAL MUHAMMAD

“…Before kidnappers go into the menace, they must have weighed the options and concluded more rewards than punishment. The study offered recommendations to address problems of kidnapping in the study area. …”
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Negative valuation of ambiguous feedback may predict near-term risk for suicide attempt in Veterans at high risk for suicide by Catherine E. Myers, Catherine E. Myers, Rokas Perskaudas, Rokas Perskaudas, Vibha Reddy, Chintan V. Dave, Chintan V. Dave, John G. Keilp, Arlene King, Kailyn Rodriguez, Kailyn Rodriguez, Lauren St. Hill, Rachael Miller, Alejandro Interian, Alejandro Interian

“…This study examined whether a feedback-based learning task with rewarding, punishing and ambiguous outcomes, followed by computational modeling, could improve near-term prospective prediction of suicide attempt in a high-risk sample.MethodVeterans (N=60) at high-risk for suicide were tested on a task of reward- and punishment-based learning, at multiple sessions across a one-year period. …”
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Modern Scientific Approaches on Defining an Administrative Offense by O. V. Panaciuk

“…It has been emphasized that the act is characterized by such legislative features as: social harm, illegality, guilt, administrative punishment. It has been noted that the absence of at least one of them makes it impossible to qualify an illegal act as an administrative misdemeanor (a tort).…”
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Conceptual basis of international jurisdiction by N. Yu. Rubanenko

“…These concepts reflect the goal of international criminal justice, which is the inevitability of punishment for serious violations of international law, since their commission threatens the security of all humanity.…”
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Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health: homelessness and the specious logic of discretionary displacement in a mid-sized US city by Lesley Jo Weaver, Claire W. Herbert, Dylan J. Podrabsky, Mackenzie L. Ní Flainn

“…In the name of public health protection, individuals and communities perceived to be diseased have long been coercively regulated through surveillance, sequestration, or various forms of criminal punishment. In the U.S., people experiencing homelessness (PEH) have been increasingly targeted by social control measures such as containment, banishment, or arrest, often under the guise of public health protection. …”
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Specific Features of the Mechanism of Administrative and Legal provision for the Implementation of the State’s Law Enforcement Function in the Field of Taxation by S. O. Dmytrenko

“…The author has defined the following key principles, which should be the basis for the activity of the subjects of the considered relations: legitimacy, presumption of legality of decisions of taxpayers in case of ambiguity of the interpretation of regulatory acts, inevitability of punishment for financial offenses, collegiality of the development of important decisions, efficiency, independence impartiality and absence of corruption. …”
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M. Walker. Branching Is Not a Bug; It’s a Feature: Personal Identity and Legal (and Moral) Responsibility / trans. from Engl. V. A. Pilipenko by V. A. Pilipenko

“…I argue, to the contrary, that there are good moral reasons to think that any account of personal identity that does not permit fission is deeply problematic, especially in connection with theorizing about criminal punishment. I discuss and reject David Lewis’ famous account of personal identity that invokes ‘multiple occupancy’ to allow for branching. …”
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Influence of We Media Information Dissemination on Public Emotional Cognition and Behavior under Government Responsibility Constraint by Rongjian Xie, Dongju Liu, Yucai Jia, Peiyun Zhang

“…When the government's willingness to regulate increases, We Media will be punished more if it violates rules. In order to reduce the cost of punishment and other factors, We Media will reduce the willingness to violate the rules. …”
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Moral Permissibility of Euthanasia- A Bangladesh Context by Nilufa Yasmin

“… Survival is obviously important, but sometimes, under particular circumstances, life can become miserable, difficult, or intolerable; at that point, survival can seem like a punishment or misfortune. A patient who is in a vegetative state, unable to sustain life with dignity, and who is suffering from a terminal illness, has freedom to choose between life and death. …”
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Application of Crisis Management Principles in Earthquake-Stricken Urban Areas by Hamedreza Sobhi, Mahmoud Rahimi, Mehdi Ravanshadnia

“…The general effects of accidents include death and injury of individuals, damage to property, products, services, and infrastructure, and thus the impact on lifestyle and its social and psychological dimensions, from a doctrinal point of view, accidents, and disasters are part of the world of creation and divine test for awakening, and sometimes, the result of the actions and punishment of human sins and its occurrence causes the growth and excellence of human society. …”
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A new electoral bottom-up model of institutional governance by Carlos M. Garrido, Francisco C. Santos, Elias Fernández Domingos, Ana M. Nunes, Jorge M. Pacheco

“…We find that the endogenous creation of local institutions that require a minimum consensus amongst group members—who, in turn, decide the nature of the institution (reward/punishment) via an electoral process—leads to higher overall cooperation than previously proposed designs, especially at low risk, proving that carrots and sticks implemented through local voting processes are more powerful than other designs. …”
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Detention of a person committed a criminal offence: criminal procedural and forensic characteristics by V. G. Drozd

“…Detention of a person who has committed a criminal offence is a temporary measure of restraint applied on the grounds and in accordance with the procedure established by the CPC of Ukraine by an authorised official (police officers, military personnel and other persons authorised by relevant laws to carry out detention) in respect of a person committed a criminal offence (i.e. an act for which the main penalty is a fine of not more than three thousand tax-free minimum incomes or other punishment not involving imprisonment). The detention of a person who has committed a criminal offence should be distinguished from administrative detention, as they differ in the grounds, terms and procedure. …”
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Prevalence of Nocturnal Enuresis and Its Associated Factors in Primary School and Preschool Children of Khorramabad in 2013 by Katayoun Bakhtiar, Yadollah Pournia, Farzad Ebrahimzadeh, Ali Farhadi, Fathollah Shafizadeh, Reza Hosseinabadi

“…There were statistically significant relationships between nocturnal enuresis and history of nocturnal enuresis in siblings (P=0.023), respiratory infections (P=0.036), deep sleep (P=0.007), corporal punishment at school (P=0.036), anal itching (P=0.043), and history of seizures (P=0.043). …”
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Relevance of Aceh's Qanun Jinayat in Minimizing Cases of Sexual Harassment against Children in Aceh by Wiwin Widiarti, Erika Magdalena Chandra, Rully Herdita Ramadhani

“…In addition, the provisions of the threat of sanctions contained in Qanun Jinayat when associated with the theory of just desert and the theory of the purpose of punishment in Islamic criminal law are still relatively light so that they have an impact on the unprotection of children's rights as victims and do not provide a deterrent effect for perpetrators.…”
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