Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

shame sanction.

A criminal sanction designed to stigmatize or disgrace a convicted offender, and often to alert the public about the offender's conviction. 0 A shame sanction usu. publicly associates the offender with the crime that he or she committed. An example is being required to post a sign in one's yard stating, "Convicted Child Molester Lives Here." - Also termed shame sentence; shaming sanction; shaming sentence; scarlet-letter punishment; scarlet-letter sentence. 3. Int'l law. An economic or military coercive measure taken by one or more countries toward another to force it to comply with international law <U.N. sanctions against a renegade nation>.