Both recent and ancient; people have gone back and forth between rehabilitation/disincentive as punishment’s goals for millennia. Look at confession/penance and the theologic justifications for that. Various penalties described in Ancient Rome and the Old Testament filled either or both those roles. We’ve had phrases like “teach him a lesson,” “now, this is for your own good,” and “spare the rod, spoil the child” for quite some time.
Both recent and ancient; people have gone back and forth between rehabilitation/disincentive as punishment’s goals for millennia. Look at confession/penance and the theologic justifications for that. Various penalties described in Ancient Rome and the Old Testament filled either or both those roles. We’ve had phrases like “teach him a lesson,” “now, this is for your own good,” and “spare the rod, spoil the child” for quite some time.