Donald C. Clarke
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LOCATION: Washington, DC, United States
Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. Author of Wrongs and Rights: A Human Rights Analysis of China's Revised Criminal Code.
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Punishment, the infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command). Punishment may take forms ranging from capital punishment, flogging, forced labour, and mutilation of the body to imprisonment and fines. Deferred punishments consist…
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