Do you think criminals should have on the spot fines?

Question

They would have the option to plead guilty straight away or go through the normal procedure. They then would either pay an instant fine or wear a collar or tag in order to help impliment community service or whatever. The point being to install a sense of self governance/ responsibilty in the moral incontinent.

Answer 1

I think I might agree with some of what you are saying although you don't put your question across very well.

But I think it would be unworkable. There are SOME on the spot fines - but they don't involve community service issues.

Answer 2

Dependant on the offence - for minor crime such as shop lifting and drunk & disorderly, the law can already issue you with a PND - a fixed penalty notice for disorder. These range from £50 to £80 and is given at the officers discretion, as stated for minor offences, whether you admit to the offence or not. You have a period of 21 days to pay the fine or lodge your objection and elect to go to a magistrates court to answer to the initial charge. Also non payment will add an aditional charge. Each force has its own policy on the number of fines an individual can recieve in any one year and also for what offences, a fine may be issued for. of course, should you be a "moral incontinent" and not bother to pay or bother to elect to go to court, you wont be too worried about the additional charges.

The tagging idea is already in use to limited effect, whereby individuals leave prison early, on licence and often, as part of this licence, will have to wear a home detention tag and abide by an electronic curfew. The penalty for breaking the curfew is immediate recall to prison, however with the prison populus rising, tagging may be more widely introduced, as a way of monitoring movements - there are no electronic shocks, that would be a breach of the human rights act, but it does act as a monitor for all those who are subject to a tagging order.

Answer 3

If they plead guilty - the punishment will, in most cases fit the crime.

Can you imagine a pedophile roaming the streets after a guilty plea? He will do it just to get away from the jail and molest more children.

To reduce overcrowding and to be more humane, many minor offences are done this way already. There is nothing new.
Self governance/responsibility is already afforded to those who by circumstance, were involved in a crime that was beyond their comprehension.

Take the example of those 2 old ladies in their 80 something - returning from a vacation - were drug mules not too long ago? Well, they did commit a crime. This is an example of many such cases.

Answer 4

Offences such as public order,petty theft and general annoyance can all be dealt with by means of a ticket. It all depends on the severity of the offence and whether or not it needs to be dealt with in court

Answer 5

Invariably petty criminals don`t pay their fines; most of them just don`t care. They have no respect for the law or anyone or anything, they certainly have no self-respect.They boast about how much they owe in fines, it adds to their `street-cred-ability.` They are career criminals who pass on their dishonesty to their children. They are without direction or purpose, They enjoy what they do.

Answer 6

They already do this with minor offenses, such as simple possession or shoplifting. They get a ticket, if they want to just pay the fine they can.

Answer 7

Oh yeah great idea.

"Excuse me, I just saw you murder that man, how do you plead?" "oh guilty" "good, so you should. Now I'm going to fine you £500 and you must wear this tag and not leave your house after 7pm."

Answer 8

depends on the crime because i don't want a murder pay a fine so they can go free and do it again.

Answer 9

wouldn't they just commit another crime to pay the fine, or just get the DHSS to pay it for them

Answer 10

yes i think so, and put in prison for life, cuz of they are in prison no more phone get stolen