{"id":50,"date":"2012-10-17T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=50"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:08:28","slug":"3-what-is-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"3. What IS Punishment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Punishment03.png\" alt=\"The State's one tool is punishment, harming you in some way. Inflicting pain, taking property, harming reputation, and restricting liberty.\" width=\"499\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Punishment03.png 499w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Punishment03-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a20ae0d9bcb20097720618' value='6a20ae0d9bcb20097720618'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a20ae0d9bcb20097720618' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a20ae0d9bcb20097720618' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a20ae0d9bcb20097720618' ><\/p>\n<p>The Criminal Lawyer&#8217;s Guide to Criminal Law (with pictures!)<\/p>\n<p>Part 2: &#8220;Take That!&#8221; &#8212; Punishment<\/p>\n<p>Page 3: Methods<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We call this hammer &#8220;PUNISHMENT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Punishment is when the State hurts you. Pain and simple.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mother spanking child \/ Man whipping prisoner<br \/>Emptied piggy bank \/ Average Joe shocked by a fine<br \/>&#8220;Naughty&#8221; fingers \/ Joe branded on the forehead &#8220;felon&#8221;<br \/>The State saying &#8220;Go to your\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">room!<\/span>&#8221; \/ Monopoly cop dragging Joe, &#8220;Go to JAIL&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There are various ways the State can hurt you, but they all boil down to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Inflicting PAIN<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Taking your PROPERTY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Harming your REPUTATION<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Restricting your LIBERTY<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a20ae0d9bcb20097720618' class='bg-showmore-plg-link bg-arrow '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,1],"tags":[5,4,6],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-criminal-law","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-punishment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}