Community service orders that do not link the particular offence to the work involved often truly serve as punishment, losing their reparative purposes. Moreover, offenders might see them as punishment. read more
Distinguishing community service from restitution in this way helps prevent community service from being used as a punitive sanction: if it is simply added on to the offender's sentence, it is used as a means of punishment. If instead, community service is used to repair the harm to the community, the risk of it being used as a punishment is reduced. read more
Punishment works well as a punitive revenge mechanism for the offended. Punishment of vitually anykind is IRRELEVANT no matter the discomfort to the person bieng punished. humans can adapt to anything yes even CONSTANT punishment. read more