Assertion: punishment | /r/CapableOf | prevent particular offender
Facets:
value: from committing further crimes
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Criminal deterrence theory has two possible applications: the first is that punishments imposed on individual offenders will deter or prevent that particular offender from committing further crimes; the second is that, public knowledge that certain offences will be punished has a generalised deterrent effect which prevents others from committing crimes.