ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive trailer and poster for Punishment, a documentary from filmmaker Øystein Mamen that’s set to premiere at the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival.
Behavioral psychology says that punishment is an ineffective motivational tool, because its effects are only temporary.
From toddlers' timeouts to criminals' prison sentences, punishment reinforces social norms, making it known that an offender has done something unacceptable.
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.
About 2000 men, women, and teenagers currently wait on America's "death row.
The degree of human cooperation among strangers in large societies is a major evolutionary puzzle 1,2.
“I’m sick and tired of violence… I’m tired of war and conflict in the world.