No one has said anything about people not adhering to a courts ruling, that's not really the issue. It's more about what that ruling and sentencing should be. And as I said in my previous post, I don't believe the criminal justice system should be setting out to 'punish' anyone, I believe the aim should be to reform them into law abiding, functional members of community. Yes a lot of the time this is through what can be viewed as punishments but when a system is only setting out to punish and not reform all it is doing is sating a desire for vengeance on the grieved party's behalf, rather than serving it's higher purpose of improving our communities and society.
Yep, how it should be done...putting something back into the community. But again the public criticises the punishment believing its the 'soft option' and not really reforming or attempting to punish the criminal. So the cycle continues...very difficult to come to a 'win win' solution
Some people will just never change, unfortunately alot of the population is made up of those unwilling to change to benefit others...just selfish
You're totally right on this point, this does happen quite frequently and serves little deterrent and has little actual impact on the persons character, instead all it does is inconvenience them for some time. If I was to have my way these kind of sentences would comprise of both conventional community service and some method of education on the matters relevant to the crime so they they can learn to impact of their actions onto others. They would also have no set period or time scale and instead would involve periodic reviews by an officer in a sort of case worker roll, who would decide when the sentence was complete based on their observations and assessment of the defendant, almost like parole reviews.
