Collective punishment

Collective punishment is a term describing the punishment of a group of people for the crime of few. It is contradictory to the modern concept of due process, where each individual receives separate treatment based on their individual circumstances — as they relate to the crime in question.

Joseph Stalin's mass deportations of several nations of the USSR to remote regions (including the Chechens, Crimean Tatars) or the Nazi atrocities at Lidice and Oradour-sur-Glane are examples of collective punishment.

In recent history, the term has been used to describe everything from the demolition of houses that allegedly sheltered terrorists in the Gaza strip, to confiscation of assets connected with drug use and trafficking in the United States.

Criminal law
Accomplice Acquittal Arrest Arrest warrant Bail Barratry California Penal Code Citizen's arrest Civil death
Collective punishment Crime Crime in Canada Criminal Code Criminal justice Criminal procedure Doctrine of merger
Felony Felony murder Forensic psychiatry Hybrid offence Indictable offence Indictment Infraction Insanity defense
Labouchere Amendment Mens rea Miranda warning Misdemeanor Mug shot Negligence Nolle prosequi Outlaw Penology Prisons in the United States
Probable cause Queen's peace Rap sheet Retributive justice Rights of the accused Solicitation The Queen v Carroll Three strikes law Transferred intent
Transformative justice Whole life tariff Witness intimidation Year and a day rule

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