• penal, penalty, penitentiary, punitive
• forfeit, imposition, pain, penalty, punishment, retribution
• criminal law, penal law
• culpable, culpable of punishment, felonious, guilty, penal
• scot-free, with impunity
• culpability, culpableness
• clean record, clean sheet
• first offender, have a clean record
• to inflict a penalty on sy, to inflict a punishment on sy
• criminal code, penal code
• to mete out punishments