(police) detective; criminal matter
cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
death penalty; capital punishment
(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
Ministry of Justice (in Tang-dynasty China)
burning at the stake; execution by burning
punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism
reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence
exile; banishment; deportation
death by hanging; execution by hanging
life imprisonment; life sentence
(penalty of) imprisonment
judge's sentence; assessment of a case
execution; death by execution
jail sentence; imprisonment
execution of a sentence (esp. imprisonment)
instruments of punishment
criminal offense; criminal offence
second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
maximum punishment; maximum sentence
corporal punishment; punishment by mutilation
corporal punishment; physical punishment; prison sentence; penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labour
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death); five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
nulla poena sine lege; no punishment without law
freedom-restricting punishment; imprisonment
definite term (of a prison sentence)
corporal punishment; physical punishment
having served time in prison; ex-convict; (arch.) eunuch
execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
theory of retribution; retributivism; retributive justice
stripping of honours (as a means of punishment); stripping of rights; public humiliation
financial penalty; pecuniary punishment
condemned person; prisoner
discretionary sentence; discretionary penalty
retributivism; retributive justice; principle of punitive justice; belief that crimes deserve suitable punishment
tattooing (form of punishment in ancient China)