Abschreckung

Deterrence - use of punishment as a threat to deter people from offending. Article “Abschreckung” in German Wikipedia has 19.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Abschreckung”, its content was written by 54 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 299 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 152 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1287 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #7334 in August 2004
• Global: #33159 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #47357 in February 2022
• Global: #87568 in April 2013

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Deterrence (penology)		53.6172
2	Portuguese (pt) Dissuasão (penologia)		35.7056
3	Chinese (zh) 嚇阻理論		35.6487
4	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (משפטים)		26.5542
5	Japanese (ja) 抑止力		25.5014
6	Arabic (ar) ردع (علم العقاب)		20.8473
7	German (de) Abschreckung		19.7704
8	French (fr) Dissuasion		13.8579
9	Indonesian (id) Penggentarjeraan		12.9366
10	Swedish (sv) Avskräckning		11.2696

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Abschreckung" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Deterrence (penology)		1 551 021
2	Chinese (zh) 嚇阻理論		229 854
3	German (de) Abschreckung		135 564
4	French (fr) Dissuasion		95 294
5	Japanese (ja) 抑止力		59 727
6	Arabic (ar) ردع (علم العقاب)		27 886
7	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (משפטים)		21 196
8	Swedish (sv) Avskräckning		19 602
9	Portuguese (pt) Dissuasão (penologia)		8 976
10	Simple English (simple) Deterrence (legal)		3 245

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Abschreckung" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Deterrence (penology)		1 479
2	Chinese (zh) 嚇阻理論		646
3	Japanese (ja) 抑止力		581
4	German (de) Abschreckung		233
5	French (fr) Dissuasion		103
6	Portuguese (pt) Dissuasão (penologia)		44
7	Simple English (simple) Deterrence (legal)		28
8	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (משפטים)		27
9	Swedish (sv) Avskräckning		20
10	Indonesian (id) Penggentarjeraan		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Abschreckung" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Deterrence (penology)		110
2	German (de) Abschreckung		54
3	Chinese (zh) 嚇阻理論		41
4	French (fr) Dissuasion		37
5	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (משפטים)		19
6	Japanese (ja) 抑止力		13
7	Swedish (sv) Avskräckning		9
8	Portuguese (pt) Dissuasão (penologia)		7
9	Simple English (simple) Deterrence (legal)		6
10	Indonesian (id) Penggentarjeraan		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Abschreckung" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Deterrence (penology)		1
2	Arabic (ar) ردع (علم العقاب)		0
3	German (de) Abschreckung		0
4	French (fr) Dissuasion		0
5	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (משפטים)		0
6	Indonesian (id) Penggentarjeraan		0
7	Japanese (ja) 抑止力		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Dissuasão (penologia)		0
9	Simple English (simple) Deterrence (legal)		0
10	Swedish (sv) Avskräckning		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Abschreckung" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Deterrence (penology)		719
2	German (de) Abschreckung		152
3	Hebrew (he) הרתעה (משפטים)		103
4	Chinese (zh) 嚇阻理論		95
5	French (fr) Dissuasion		83
6	Japanese (ja) 抑止力		75
7	Arabic (ar) ردع (علم العقاب)		30
8	Swedish (sv) Avskräckning		14
9	Portuguese (pt) Dissuasão (penologia)		9
10	Simple English (simple) Deterrence (legal)		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ردع (علم العقاب)
de	German Abschreckung
en	English Deterrence (penology)
fr	French Dissuasion
he	Hebrew הרתעה (משפטים)
id	Indonesian Penggentarjeraan
ja	Japanese 抑止力
pt	Portuguese Dissuasão (penologia)
simple	Simple English Deterrence (legal)
sv	Swedish Avskräckning
zh	Chinese 嚇阻理論

Best Rank

German: #47357 02.2022

Global: #87568 04.2013

Best Rank

German: #7334 08.2004

Global: #33159 08.2004

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