It's hard to say how effective it is but an aspect of that sort of punishment is general deterrence which became more common versus reformation approaches in th

It's hard to say how effective it is but an aspect of that sort of punishment is general deterrence which became more common versus reformation approaches in the 80s and 90s, where the intent is to increase the perceived risk of the crime. I think generally more approach on reformative punishment in the US would be good, but there also still examples where deterrence is useful. One more recent example is DUI enforcement and license revocation,[1] or tax evasion jail time. The goal isn't entirely to reform those who commit the crime, or keep them from being able to commit further crimes, but to increase the percentage of people not committing crimes by changing the perceived risk to reward ratio. [1]https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/809950.pdf https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/809950.pdf