When lay people state that punishment doesn’t work, such a statement refers to the procedural definition. Discuss why it is important to use an outcome- based definition when judging a given contingency in terms of it being one of punishment.

When lay people state that punishment doesn’t work, such a statement refers to the procedural definition. Discuss why it is important to use an outcome- based definition when judging a given contingency in terms of it being one of punishment.