It's different from mental damages, criminal fine and administrative punishment. Ithas functions of compensation, encouragement, intimidation and punishment.

它不同于精神赔偿、刑事罚金和行政处罚，具有补偿、激励、威慑、制裁等多种功能。

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As penalty goes towards being commuted and reprieved within the global scope, the fine penalty is being paid more attention, and people deepen the study on criminal fines.

随着全球范围内的刑罚轻缓化发展，罚金刑越来越受到人们的重视，对罚金刑的理论研究逐渐深入。

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The Koch Petroleum Group eventually pleaded guilty to one criminal charge of covering up environmental violations, including the falsification of documents, and paid a twenty-million-dollar fine.

科赫石油集团最终对其隐瞒包括篡改文案在内的环保违规行为的刑事指控表示服罪，并支付了两千万美元的罚款。

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It also includes the largest criminal fine ever in any case in the United States, more than one billion dollars.

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On its face it was fatuous given that Galant's behavior constituted an administrative offense for which one pays a fine, rather than a criminal offense for which one goes to jail.

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And it also backed an amendment sponsored by Republican John McCain and Democrat Edward Kennedy that allows the millions of undocumented workers already in the country to get on the road to citizenship, provided they pay a thousand dollar fine, that they pass criminal background checks, and that they apply for a green card.

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That means it is a criminal offence to possess or sell the drugs, and the courts can fine and jail offenders or order some other form of community-based sentence.

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