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Quote by: Rinoa  But would you say that they would be more likely to try to prevent their child from committing the crime? Personally I believe that alot of crime that is committed by children stems from either lack of parental involvement or a lack of skill in parenting. If a parent was required to pay a fine for the child's vandalism I think that would encourage their involvemment in the childs life. I believe in a parenting class as part of punishment because that helps to give parents the tools(skills) to help their child not commit a crime. |
Those both sound fine to me: classes and fines, absolutely. But in both cases, these should be seen as sanctions imposed on irresponsible parents, not as punishment for criminal actions. If that was what the OP intended, that the criminal child pay for their own crime, AND the parents suffer some kind of penalty such as you describe here, then I'm happy with that, personally.
But what a sad state of affairs when we have to encourage a parent's involvement in a child's life by imposing a fine after criminal action.