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Definitely, humiliation is one of the best ways to rehabilitate people and have them truly accept wrongdoing. In Dublin int he mid nineties, a judge once got a guy who urinated in public to wear a sandwich board saying what he had done and got hime to walk up and down o'connel st. (main street in dublin) picking up rubbish. I'm confident it worked, and even if it didn't, everyone had a good laugh.
Bring back the stocks!

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Originally posted by agryson
Definitely, humiliation is one of the best ways to rehabilitate people and have them truly accept wrongdoing. In Dublin int he mid nineties, a judge once got a guy who urinated in public to wear a sandwich board saying what he had done and got hime to walk up and down o'connel st. (main street in dublin) picking up rubbish. I'm confident it worked, and even if it didn't, everyone had a good laugh.
Bring back the stocks!
Talking about "cruel and unusual"...

;-)

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Originally posted by Retrovirus
Talking about "cruel and unusual"...

;-)
I'm with Robert A. Heinlein on this, if it ain't cruel, then where's the incentive not to reoffend? If it's not unusual, then what's to stop them getting institutionalised. There always needs to be a focus on rehabilitation as the primary aim, but jail just doesn't work in all cases, ASBO's were always a bad idea from day one, but the strange thing about people is that the sane ones always seem to value their pride over a fine ro soemthing similar. Name and shame is the best way to get these guys to police themselves.

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Johnny Knoxville must have been a very naughty boy.

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I wouldn't go so far as to propose the death penalty for firt offences, in fact I'm not too hot on the death penalty or actually causing direct injury, pain yes, but not injury. But I would bring back the stocks, in a modernised form of course.
As for hard labour, yes, I think introducing a form of hard labour would be beneficial, I'm not so certain as to what type but it should make having a normal job on the outside look like a cakewalk. I don't think that that's the impression a lot of inmates have nowadays.

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Hell yeah, and these guys would learn valuable skills instead of making shivs and getting stupid tattoos.

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Originally posted by agryson
I wouldn't go so far as to propose the death penalty for firt offences, in fact I'm not too hot on the death penalty or actually causing direct injury, pain yes, but not injury. But I would bring back the stocks, in a modernised form of course.
As for hard labour, yes, I think introducing a form of hard labour would be beneficial, I'm not so certain as to ...[text shortened]... k like a cakewalk. I don't think that that's the impression a lot of inmates have nowadays.
You appear to have a considerable interest in this topic so tell us what you recommend should be done to persuade the yobos to mend their ways.

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Originally posted by zamo
You appear to have a considerable interest in this topic so tell us what you recommend should be done to persuade the yobos to mend their ways.
I think that agryson has made his views quite clear. But what does catfoodtim recommend?

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Double brownie points for me..."Holiday" time is over!

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Double brownie points for me..."Holiday" time is over!
"Double" as in a double call of zamo and spinor ?

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and maybe 2 others

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Originally posted by aging blitzer
"Double" as in a double call of zamo and spinor ?
The old reprobate replicates.

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