Lesson-26-Creative-Justice培训课件.pptVIP

A dentist convicted of killing a motorcyclist while driving drunk has been condemned to fix the teeth of the poor and the elderly at his own expense one day a week for a full year. Another drunk driver(age nineteen)was ordered to work in the emergency room of a hospital once a week for three years, so that he could see for himself the results of careless driving. A thief who had stolen some equipment from a farmer had to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. A former city treasurer , guilty of dishonest actions , was put to raising money for the Red Cross. A group of teenagers were sentenced to fix ten times the number of windows that they had smashed “just for fun ” one wild evening. . Graffiti artists have been made to scrub walls , benches, and other “decorated” places. Other young offenders caught snatching old ladies’s purses have been condemned to paint or repair old people’s houses or to work in mental hospitals. 精品文档 A doctor who had attacked his neighbor during a snowball fight had to give a lecture on the relation between smoking and cancer . A college professor arrested in a protest demonstration was ordered to write a long essay on civil disobedience, and the president of a film company, who had forged $ 42,000 worth of checks , had to make a film about the danger of drugs , to be shown in schools . The project cost him $45,000, besides the fine that he had been sentenced to pay . The judges’s creativity is not reserved for individuals only; lawbreaking companies also can receive alternative sentences. They are usually directed to make large contributions to charities or projects that will benefit their community . Instead of trying new types of sentences, some judges have explored new ways of using the old ones . They have given prison 精品文档 term to be served on weekends only, for instance — a sentence that allows married offenders to retain their jobs and to keep their families together . Although the public tends to fin