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The present work attempts to demonstrate that normative attitudes like exclusion, blackmail, threat, punishment, and controlling behavior are building insecure educational relationships which could create major obstacles in the approach to difficult adolescents or juvenile delinquents. This article argues that both education and therapy are, above all, a transmission of humanity. Given this essential new basis—which is a key to any sociotherapeutic process—the author demonstrates that punishment and normative attitudes are dead-end solutions in individual crisis and social insecurity, and explains why and how abandoning those concepts is more efficient to reach new results in those fields.