The sentence "punish crimes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in any situation where you want to emphasize that crimes should be punished. For example, "We must work together to ensure that justice is served and criminals receive the appropriate punishments for their crimes."
We do not object to convening military tribunals to judge and punish crimes committed in war.
I find that, when a sanctioning scheme is used to induce different levels of precaution from high- and low-cost victims, a sanction less than the maximum may be used to punish crimes against either type of victim.
All because the criminal law is being used not primarily to punish crimes but for purposes of detaining people we are worried about.
General Blaskic was charged with ordering attacks on two dozen towns and villages and with failing to prevent or punish crimes by subordinates.
"If you do not punish crimes, there's really no reason they won't happen again," said Mary Ramirez, a professor at Washburn University School of Law and a former assistant United States attorney.
After his comments were publicized, small demonstrations broke out in Jaipur, and a complaint against Mr. Nandy was filed with the police under a law that aims to prevent and punish crimes and atrocities committed against Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
It operates courts, including mobile courts, to punish crime and resolve disputes.
But Homan Square does not conduct detentions to punish crime or for pre-trial holding.
For much of recorded European history, confessions, often extracted by torture, were used to investigate and punish crime.
Perhaps so; any community must choose between the impairment of its power to punish crime and such evils as arise from its uncontrolled prosecution.
The government can punish crime, but it can't punish speech about crime, even by proven criminals about their own crimes, much less an artist like Mr. Duncan.
