shame sanction

A criminal sanction designed to stigmatize or disgrace a convicted offender, and often to alert the public about the offender’s conviction.

• 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.

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