0 without receiving the deserved or expected punishment or without being harmed:
1 without receiving the punishment deserved:
When people got into trouble, they often consulted litigation masters for advice on how to get reduced sentences for their crimes, or how to get off scot-free.
However, they are overwhelming citizens with brutal austerity programmes and allowing the perpetrators to get off scot-free.
People should not make capital gains and get away with it scot-free.
If they are let off scot-free the international community will only be rubber-stamping the crimes that they committed and the international community will lose face.
He has walked away from court scot-free on the charges of theft and criminal damage because they were dropped.
Much more pernicious forms of gambling, which in some cases produce evil results, are allowed to go scot-free.
There is discrimination here, because cricket and amateur tennis get off scot-free.
That means that a defendant in such a case is entitled to go scot-free, however negligent he may have been.
