NY Blogger Criticized For Posting Photos of Teen Vandals

Re:NY Blogger Criticized For Posting Photos of Teen Vandals by stretchwithme on Monday November 08, 2010 @12:14AM (#1881479)

I don't think anyone is advocating jail time for egging people. But you should at least get SOME negative repercussions from your behavior. A $200 fine should still enable people to turn "their lives around". They should at least be forced to clean up the mess they've made.

In olden times when we lived in small villages, yes people knew when someone was being an asshole. And they remembered. One more disincentive against bad behavior.

And people know they are dealing with a young person and the potential to grow out of it. All the more reason to make the consequences immediate and not have them learn they can treat badly without consequence.

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Re:NY Blogger Criticized For Posting Photos of Teen Vandals by Zak on Monday November 08, 2010 @12:56AM (#1881558)

>I don't think anyone is advocating jail time for egging people.

I am. I don't think a fine effectively gets across the point that battery and vandalism are crimes, not minor violations like jaywalking. $200 is a speeding ticket, and to some upper-middle class teenagers, little more than pocket change. Three days in jail (or juvenile detention), on the other hand is most likely a novel and frightening experience that's actually likely to discourage similar behavior in the future.

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Re:NY Blogger Criticized For Posting Photos of Teen Vandals by pyre on Monday November 08, 2010 @03:25PM (#1883838)

  > some upper-middle class teenagers, little more
  > than pocket change

I think that my parents would be considered upper-middle class and I've never thought that $200 was pocket-change.

  > Three days in jail (or juvenile detention), on
  > the other hand is most likely a novel and frightening
  > experience that's actually likely to discourage similar
  > behavior in the future.

For some. For others it might just allow them to find bad role models more effectively.

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Re:NY Blogger Criticized For Posting Photos of Teen Vandals by stretchwithme on Monday November 08, 2010 @01:43AM (#1881656)

oh, ok then. Give them a little time in the corner. Even that is not life ending. Even Martha bounced back.

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