Relating to punishment of offenders (5)

I believe the answer is:

penal

(Other definitions for penal that I've seen before include "Involving legal punishment" , "Corrective" , "Punitive" , "Relating to legal punishment" , "Involving punishment as by the law" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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