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This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Administrative detention, Amende honorable, Amercement, Badge of shame, Bitlaha, Blood money, Boot camp, Cadena temporal, Cangue, Castigation, Chastisement, Chemical castration, Child discipline, Collective punishment, Comminatory, Conditional discharge, Confiscation, Cyphonism, Degradation nationale, Day-fine, Deferred sentence, Deportation, Detention, Diesel therapy, Drumming out, Electronic tagging, Exile, Felony disenfranchisement, Fine, Gating, House arrest, Imperial ban, Jankers, Kasepekang, Mercy, Mirror punishment, Nuisance fee, Parading on donkey, Parsimony, Penal transportation, Peshotanu, Pindown, Pittura infamante, Postenpflicht, Probation, Psychological punishment, Public humiliation, Punishment, Punishment, Reduction in rank, Riding the rail, Sanctions, Shock incarceration, Shunning, Standing cell, Suspended sentence, Suspension, Symbole, Tarring and feathering, Time-out, Traffic ticket, Unit fine, Weregild. Excerpt: Template: Merge Template: Legal status Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial, usually for security reasons. A large number of countries, both democratic and undemocratic, resort to administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism, control illegal immigration, or to protect the ruling regime. Unlike criminal incarceration (imprisonment) imposed upon on conviction following a trial, administrative detention is a forward-looking mechanism. While criminal proceedings have a retrospective focus - they seek to determine whether a defendant committed an offense in the past - the reasoning behind administrative detention is that the suspect is likely to pose a threat in the future. It is meant to be preventive in nature rather than punitive (see preventive detention). The practice has been criticized by human rights organizations as a breach of civil and political rights. Administrative detent...
