Discover why punishment-based prisons fail, and how psychology offers a more humane and effective path to justice.

President Trump is imposing collective punishment on millions of people around the world in response to deadly shootings, ...

About 2000 men, women, and teenagers currently wait on America's "death row." Their time grows shorter as federal and state courts increasingly ratify death penalty laws, allowing executions to ...

The scriptural concept of collective blessing challenges the pervasive logic that seems to be holding this country ...

Corporal punishment has declined so rapidly in the United States in the last 15 years that many people think it’s practically nonexistent in modern American public schools. To the contrary, more than ...

Behavioral psychology says that punishment is an ineffective motivational tool, because its effects are only temporary. While punishment may suppress undesirable behavior temporarily, it fails to ...

"The very temporary change in behavior does not outweigh the negative outcomes," Dr. Robin Gurwitch, a psychologist, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue Anya Leon is a Senior News Editor and the Parents ...

You’ve done something that hurt someone else, perhaps even yourself. You regret it, but you can’t take it back, so you wait for someone to notice and provide some sort of correction to relieve your ...

The punishment already inflicted by the majority on such a one is enough; you should now relent and support him so that he may not be crushed by too great a weight of sorrow. 2 Cor. 2:6-7 Indulgences ...