THEORIES OF PUNISHMENT INTRODUCTION The immediate consequence that follows a criminal act is called punishment. Punishment is the result of crime. Punishment involves all or few or any one of, suffering, loss, pain, penalty or image tarnish. During olden times there were punishments like travelling on donkey, removing hairs, etc. Recently we have punishments like fine, imprisonment. Capital punishment, life imprisonment, etc. The main aim of punishment is to convert the person to a good citizen and also for the crime which he have done. The purpose which punishments are given because to ensure that the crime is not repeated, to create a fear in the mind of citizen that if he do crime they will be punished and to prevent crime. The important theories of punishments are deterrent theory, retributive theory, preventive theory and reformative theory. There are many other theories of punishments such as expiatory or compensatory theory, incapacitation theo