Legal analysis: criminal punishment is an act that violates criminal law and should be punished by criminal law, which is called punishment for short. According to the provisions of China's criminal law, punishment includes two parts: principal punishment and supplementary punishment. The main punishments are: public surveillance, criminal detention, fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment and death penalty. Additional punishments include: fines, deprivation of political rights and confiscation of property; There is also the expulsion of criminals.
Legal basis: Article 2 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * The task of People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law is to fight against all criminal acts with penalties, safeguard national security, people's democratic dictatorship and socialist system, protect state-owned property and property collectively owned by working people, protect citizens' private property, protect citizens' personal rights, democratic rights and other rights, and safeguard social and economic order and socialism.