skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > social history of crime > courts, corrections, punishments > shaming and shunning

Preferred term

shaming and shunning  

Definition(s)

  • The application of shame and shunning as a means to control behaviors that society views as undesirable is not new. Almost every religious and cultural tradition throughout the world has referred to the role that shame can have for controlling behavior. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Shaming and Shunning]

Broader concept(s)

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-WDGBZBQ5-Q

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD