An interesting reaction

A country that likes to treat it's neighbours, and the original
inhabitants, like vermin...

 

*Boggle*

 

Des, you're criticizing *all* the options as far as I can see. Which
of a bad bunch do you think works best?

 

A cut and paste from the conditions of CP work...

"To be considered your project must meet the following criteria:

It must benefit the local community
It must not take paid work away from others
No one must make a profit from the work
It must be challenging and demanding
It must be worthwhile and constructive
Offenders must be seen to be putting something back into the
community.
Organisations benefiting from the work must provide and pay for any
materials to be used, such as paint and brushes."

http://www.surreysussexprobation.gov.uk/what_we_do/community_payback/how_it_works/

 

On Sat, 15 May 2010 19:45:09 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel

I think the use of the word "payback" is wrong. Whenever I hear
someone use that it's generally not in a positive way so it makes the
enterprise seem vindictive. As long as they're tagged there's no real
need to plaster them in statements.

 

Hi.

The point is that there are two sides here. The offenders, and how not
to make them feel any worse for what they've done (cue violins!) and
the populace. The populace are always complaining thet "nothing gets
done" because they don't SEE it get done. The big aims of CP are
twofold, get the offenders to do some useful work to payback for
whatever they've done and the let the rest of the world see that
something is happening. I see nothing wrong with this.

 

I didn't realise the Scots still did this...

 

(SteveH) banged this out on the bongos:

I'm talking about where he hails from at the moment...

 

<light dawns>

 

Ireland.