Someone's stolen Seve!

[cliveb]

To all those who say that community service doesn't work...
Yes, in its current guise it probably doesn't. That's why in my post I explicitly said "Not just a few hours picking up litter, but something significant."

Not sure humiliating them is necessarily a good idea. That's just being vindictive.
Whatever form of punishment you choose should achieve two things:
1. Be of benefit to society.
2. Help them change their mindset so they can see why being respectful of others is a good thing.

I don't see jail doing that (apart from keeping them off the streets for a while).
What else is there apart from some kind of significant community service? (And I emphasise: significant).

 

[sunshine]

A good few years back metal thieves took all the plaques from the memorial garden where my mum's ashes are buried. they tried to weigh them in but the scrap merchant reported them to the cops and they were caught. Unfortunately they'd bent all the plaques so they couldn't be refitted.

That's pretty low, even for a criminal.

 

[D-S]

When we were in North Carolina near Pinehurst we saw a proper old fashioned chain gang working on the verge of the road. Prisoners chained together with a couple of officers overseeing them wearing mirrored sunglasses carrying rifles. Quite a chilling sight.

 

[jim8flog]

When we were in North Carolina near Pinehurst we saw a proper old fashioned chain gang working on the verge of the road. Prisoners chained together with a couple of officers overseeing them wearing mirrored sunglasses carrying rifles. Quite a chilling sight.

"Moving up here boss" and "pop little safety pin pop"

 

[D-S]

"Moving up here boss" and "pop little safety pin pop"

Yup, real Cool Hand Luke vibes.

 

[Voyager EMH]

I can eat 50 eggs

 

[Voyager EMH]

Most of the chaps I met in prison consider community service as a "win" avoiding prison. They are happy about it in that way.
They don't care about whether it is humiliating in a similar way to how they don't care about damaging or stealing other people's property.
They just don't care about much at all really.

How to make them "care" about stuff in the same way that others do?
Multifaceted question that books could be written about.
Very unlikely to achieve that by humiliating them. That is not to say that they don't deserve some humbling experience - it just doesn't mean much to them, mostly.