Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

When thinking about punishments for crime, at least minor ones, there is often a balance between teaching someone a lesson to make sure they don’t do it again and not being so harsh that it ends up doing more harm than good. New research from the US shows a possible new pathway that might get this balance right, called Creative Punishments.   Creative punishments were made popular by a particular judge in the US who, for example, sentenced a man who didn’t pay his taxi fare to have to walk the same distance as his taxi ride.   Creative punishments are alternative forms of discipline that are designed to fit the specific nature of the crime, often by making the offender experience the consequences of their actions in a direct, meaningful way.   Other examples of creative punishments include:   A woman who threw food at a fast-food outlet employee sentenced to work at a fast-food restaurant for 60 days instead of jail.  A man caught vandalizing a public statue was sentenced to cleaning