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Unit 22 Creative Justice The traditional way of throwing criminals in jail is to see the guilty punished and society protected. What the judges are trying to find is the kind of punishment that will not only be just, but useful to society. “This is true justice”. Disadvantages of putting the criminal in jail A young thief who spends time in jail receives a thorough education in crime from his fellow prisoners. They are exposed to dangerous company. Alternative sentence Good for young offenders It is applied only to nonviolent criminals who are not likely to be dangerous to the public, such as forgers, shoplifters, and drivers who have caused traffic accidents. Alternative sentence Paying for their crime by helping their victims, financially or otherwise. Doing unpaid labor for their community Working for the poor and the mentally ill Cleaning the streets of their town Collecting litter or plant trees Taking a job and repay their victims our of their salary. Advantages of the creative justice It reduces prison crowding, while has been responsible for much violence and crime among inmates. Cases of creative justice 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, and the president of a film company, who had forged $43,000 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. Difficult sentence 1 监狱是一个使犯罪人没有机会伤害无辜者的地方. A jail is a place wh