Punishment is supposed to have the value of exciting in the guilty the consciousness of guilt; in punishment is sought the proper instrumentum of that psychic reaction which becomes known as a "bad conscience," "remorse."
Zigorrak, esaten da, errudunarengan erruaren sentimendua iratzartzeko balioa izango luke, zigorrean "kontzientzia txar", "kontzientziaren ausikia" deituriko erreakzio arimazko horren benetako instrumentum-a bilatzen da.