| In fact, some of the key drug criminals in our communities are getting a slap on the wrist if they are even penalized in the courts. |
| Hacking into computer networks was long seen as little more than a prank, and punishment was typically a slap on the wrist. |
| You know, it's not a slap on the wrist, it's very, very strict supervision for the next ten years of his life. |
| All you would get, apparently, would be a slap on the wrist, a telling-off but also praise for work well done. |
| Only the writers get the virtual slap on the wrist for artificially inserting too much melodrama into a story that should have been a comic romp. |
| They feel Canadian judges are the worst and are liable to give criminals who appear before them nothing but a slap on the wrist. |
