Should We Bring Back The Stocks for some types of crimes?

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Do you think humiliating a person is a fitting punishment for some crimes like bullying?

A judge in Ohio has ordered a man to appear in public, holding a sign that reads: "I am a bully".
Edmond Aviv was convicted of harassing his neighbours and their disabled children for 15 years.

See the link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27017750


Personally I'm all for it, but I think the public should also be allowed to throw some cow dung at him as well... disgusting creature.
 
Providing the stocks were put behind a transparent screen so things couldn't be thrown at the miscreant it might not be a bad idea!
 
hollydolly said:
Do you think humiliating a person is a fitting punishment for some crimes like bullying?

A judge in Ohio has ordered a man to appear in public, holding a sign that reads: "I am a bully".
Edmond Aviv was convicted of harassing his neighbours and their disabled children for 15 years.

See the link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27017750


Personally I'm all for it, but I think the public should also be allowed to throw some cow dung at him as well... disgusting creature.
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Well, I bet he'd think twice before bulling again after this type of punishment.
 
hollydolly said:
Do you think humiliating a person is a fitting punishment for some crimes like bullying?

A judge in Ohio has ordered a man to appear in public, holding a sign that reads: "I am a bully".
Edmond Aviv was convicted of harassing his neighbours and their disabled children for 15 years.

See the link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27017750


Personally I'm all for it, but I think the public should also be allowed to throw some cow dung at him as well... disgusting creature.
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I just think if people knew they were actually going to get punished, I mean really punished, they wouldn't be so eager to commit crimes. I think too many have gotten away with "murder" so to speak, so if you aren't going to get in any trouble, why stop being a criminal.

I got spankings when I was a kid, and I can still feel that sting. But I sure learned "not" to do things I wasn't supposed to. I know there are some that got beatings when they were kids, that I don't go along with in any way, so please don't misunderstand. denise
 
Denise, I do understand your point. As a six year old child, my mother whipped me once, and told me it's what happened to all of the people who chose to do wrong. As I grew up I saw the world as a very frightening and violent place. I could not see why anyone would chose to to something that going to bring pain of any sort to oneself.

Of my two sons, one was spanked and one got a lectures. My X spanked my oldest and he would just laugh at his father, but he just hated the disappointed look on my face, as well as the lecture he knew he would receive from me. My youngest son could just tune me out, but he hated to be spanked. By the time they were 6 or 7, I didn't have to spank anymore, and the lectures became fewer and fewer.

Somewhere along the way, say mid 70's, we stop disciplining our own children, and bought into the psychological jabber about them knowing how to raise our children better than ourselves. So Children's Protective Services, and our school systems tried to take over. In the process our children learned to manipulate the system, and avoid any consequences.

Although, I do think we can reverse this problem, I also think it's going to take time. :anyone: :magnify:
 
Ina said:
Denise, I do understand your point. As a six year old child, my mother whipped me once, and told me it's what happened to all of the people who chose to do wrong. As I grew up I saw the world as a very frightening and violent place. I could not see why anyone would chose to to something that going to bring pain of any sort to oneself.

Of my two sons, one was spanked and one got a lectures. My X spanked my oldest and he would just laugh at his father, but he just hated the disappointed look on my face, as well as the lecture he knew he would receive from me. My youngest son could just tune me out, but he hated to be spanked. By the time they were 6 or 7, I didn't have to spank anymore, and the lectures became fewer and fewer.

Somewhere along the way, say mid 70's, we stop disciplining our own children, and bought into the psychological jabber about them knowing how to raise our children better than ourselves. So Children's Protective Services, and our school systems tried to take over. In the process our children learned to manipulate the system, and avoid any consequences.

Although, I do think we can reverse this problem, I also think it's going to take time. :anyone: :magnify:
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You bring up a good point Ina, different discipline for different children, or, grown-ups perhaps. I mean, there are some kids that may be damaged with certain punishments. For example, I had a step-dad that not only spanked us, but he gave us a "Charles manson" look. I still see it. It is not a good type of punishment for a child, that is my belief. I mean a look that says "I'm going to kill you". I think it is something parents, mentally and emotionally healthy parents, have to decide for each child because they are different.
 
Don't kid yourselves that the wealthy and middle class rip off merchants would ever be sentenced to the stocks.
Such punishments are meant for the hapless poor to teach them their place in society.
 
I don't think humiliation is an answer. After my oldest son was murdered, I had a hard time understanding how such a senseless act could occur without a real thought to the ramifications. I worked every Saturday and Wednesday evenings for three years in a voluntary program working with violent criminals trying to help them deal with their actions, and maybe come up with alternatives responses.

Humiliation only made the individual inmates more unwilling to change their thoughts, much less their actions.

I also saw that our prison system made the inmates every comfortable. The worse the crime, the more opportunities were offered to them.
Yes, they lost their freedom and access to the outside society, but they were very comfortable too. I always felt they should be working in some fashion, so they could help repay the costs and damages they had caused.
 
I agree Ina, they should be doing some kind of work for sure. It used to be 3 hots and a cot...now it's cable TV, etc.
 
I think they should have to work and earn their keep while incarcerated. I'm against corporal and capital punishment. Capital punishment has been shown NOT to deter crime. They should have to work hard and gain skills to move back into society as a productive member. White collar criminals need to pay steep fines so they learn their lesson by sacrificing what they covet most.
 
Put convicted criminals in Stocks? But, most of those guys are the criminals!!!

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