incapacitation
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Incapacitation, retribution, or rehabilitation are the three choices society has for dealing with criminal behavior.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2011
The unjust and absurd Act of Incapacitation was carried by seventy-four voices to twenty-four.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron