The British courts have not been nearly as severe in imposing punishments for financial crimes as their American counterparts, where sentences of 10 years or more for white-collar defendants have become almost commonplace.
Under our legal system, the courts impose punishment for criminal offending, not politicians".
Brinkerhoff (2003) notes that the ' ability of overseeing actor(s) to impose punishment for failures and transgressions [is what] gives 'teeth' to accountability'.
It is rare for the police in Afghanistan to intervene when local villagers impose punishments for social crimes, even severe ones such as flogging and stoning, which are allowed under Shariah law, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran.
Now, six year later, his book plumbs the memories of Colonel Couch and others — and mines subsequent Congressional testimony, inspector general reports and courtroom transcripts — to show how, by seeking to avoid the legitimizing constraints of the regular justice system's checks and balances, the Bush team ended up undermining the government's power to impose punishments for war crimes.
The second step is then to offer positive consequentialist reasons for imposing punishment on those who are eligible for it or liable to it: we should punish if and because this can be expected to produce sufficient consequential benefits to outweigh its undoubted costs.
The high-profile walkout and attention from groups like the ACLU may make it unwise for schools to impose punishments, Feldman suggested.
Legal punishment presupposes crime as that for which punishment is imposed, and a criminal law as that which defines crimes as crimes; a system of criminal law presupposes a state, which has the political authority to make and enforce the law and to impose punishments.
This country is alone, the brief said, in imposing the punishment for juvenile offenses.
When the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, it said there were two social purposes for imposing capital punishment for the most egregious crimes: deterrence and retribution.
