Telishment is an act by the authorities of punishing a suspect in order to deter future wrongdoers, even though they know that the suspect is innocent. If supporters of these theories believe in the effectiveness of telishment as a deterrent, opponents claim that they must bite the bullet and also hold that telishment is ethically justified.

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• Audi, Robert, ed. (1995). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 791–792. ISBN 0-521-40224-7.