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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did I miss something?  Why are the only choices for punishment to do nothing or to send him to juvie?  [b]What about community service?  [/b]There needs to be some consequence to try to discourage negative behavior before kids have to be sent to juvie. [/quote]

How are you going to enforce this?  So far he’s gotten away with stealing cars and there’s been no consequence.  You think he’s going to show up for trash pick up duty?  Are the police going to arrest him for not doing community service?  The same police that don’t arrest him for stealing cars?[/quote]

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That would put the "policing" onto some sort of nonprofit or other entity with volunteer jobs. No, thanks. I would not want to manage the work of car thieves.[/quote]

Why does it have to be a non-profit or a volunteer job?  Didn’t we used to punish people by making them pick up trash on the side of the road?  As for enforcement, while I’m not sure of the actual legal terms and procedures, couldn’t we set up contingencies in the sentence, so he either does the work he’s sentenced to, or else he is sent to juvenile detention. [/quote]

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