The word confinement is commonly used to describe the action of confining. This word is used to refer to the fact of confining or locking someone up in a place, separating them from their freedom. In the judicial aspect it implies a sanction decreed by a court, which is the one who establishes the time that a confined person must remain in a place stipulated for it.
Generally, the places where a person who has committed an offense is confined is a jail. However, imprisonment-related deprivation of liberty may include other approaches, for example, a person may be confined to remain at home without leaving it for a long time. Others are confined to exile, that is, they must leave the place where they live and never return.
It is interesting to mention that confinement arises as a punishment during ancient times, where people who maintained unacceptable behavior within society were often punished. By then, the penalty measure was based on exile, which consisted of expelling the punished from his city for many years.
It is important to emphasize that this term is not always located within the scene of sanctions imposed by law. There are many armed groups engaged in kidnapping of citizens with the purpose of ransom. In this case, there is a confinement for the victim, since he is deprived of his freedom and worst, against his will.
Animals can also be exposed to confinement, when they are taken from their natural environment to be locked up in zoos or in particular places prepared by man for captivity.
