Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

criminal sanction

A sanction attached to a criminal conviction, such as a fine or restitution. - Also termed penal sanction. A criminal sanction ... is a legally authorized postconviction deprivation suffered by a human being through governmental action. By using the words 'postconviction' in that definition, criminal sanctions are thus limited to those imposed upon defendants in criminal proceedings who, by reason or in consequence of a judgment entered upon a verdict of guilty found by a jury, or judge sitting without a jury (the latter having been legally waived), or upon a plea of guilty, or a plea of nolo contendere, stand convicted." A Treatise on the Law of Crimes § 2.00, at 66 (Marian Quinn Barnes ed., 7th ed. 1967).