Member of the lowest caste would not have been able to pay a fine or secure a guarantor so they would lose their civil rights, be prohibited from practising a profession or being employed in any position of trust. Also they may be excluded from the participation in religious rites. Isolation within the community would be great and would act as a deterrent as the threat of exclusion was a major factor in upholding the law. As in Celtic Britain we still issue fines as a form of punishment, if fines are not paid the court can issue an order to seize the value of goods of the fine. We have community service rather than redemption by working on the land.
If a person could not pay the fine, they would be an outcast with in the social tribe and isolated, they would be prevented from participating in religious rites and lose their civil rights too. Celts were a civilisation based on honour and acceptance, those committing crime had to redeem themselves back into the kinship of their tribe. The fear of losing their religious rites and their standing within the social tribe was enough to deter most Celts, to be isolated and seen as relegated to a lower member of the tribe would almost certainly deter reoffending. The Celts would impose sanctions upon law breakers as a community punishment, today this could compare to our system of community payback, whereby a person who has committed a crime would be ordered to do a certain amount of unpaid work as a way of repaying his community for his wrong doing. Until the payback had been fulfilled the person remains unpunished and not part of the rest of the law abiding society.
If the Celtic offender could not pay then the responsibility fell on a family member with them having power to take assets, Very much like how the bail bond system works today. Also a common approach to punishment was and still is humiliation. Humiliation within the local community was to make it known that the offender had broke the law. Celtics were sent out to work the land as repayment for the crime committed. In modern times offenders are given a community service orders to repay their time back
An offender would need a Guarantor to pay his fine should he be unable to pay. If an offender could not pay nor get a Guarantor, he would find himself isolated from his tribe in the lowest caste of society. The lowest caste did not have civil rights and may not have been allowed to participate in some religious rites. Further, an offender would not be allowed to continue with their profession nor work in any position of trust. The Celts would not actually punish an offender nor stand in the way of redemption, in fact this was encouraged but it would be solely down to the offender to earn his way back into his tribe.
These laws also helped to organize how crimes are punished and built the system where injured persons could seek restitution. These laws protected lower class citizens and also did not leave sole justice in the hands of the judge. Some of these laws prohibited
As a way to make the prisoners feel more human and give them some hope they allowed a priest to meet with them, instead of offering spiritual counseling, he advised them to get legal counsel. If I were a prisoner in this study I definitely would have liked the right to stop participating to be my choice, not being forced to stay after I had requested to go home. To me it made me think in some ways the participants were being held hostage. If I were the experimenter in charge I still would have done the experiment, just not to the extent that he did. It’s obvious the participants rights were violated when their request to go home were denied.
For offenders at this time fines were imposed according to economic status and a guarantee of ability to pay was needed. This was sometimes underwritten by a person of equal of higher caste. Those unable to pay or to get a guarantor would lose certain civil rights including employment in positions of trust, practising professions and religious rights. These losses and the seclusion imposed by communities on offenders were used to deter further offending. Offenders were not allowed to leave the community territory but they were still allowed to work on their own land, trying to redeem themselves with their efforts.
To best describe my views on the child labor laws is; I feel the need to hold employers accountable in many ways one of which would be to raise the fines to such a level that violating the FLSA would destroy their profit margins. Society should be holding violators accountable criminally; a jail sentence could also prove to be a teacher for violators. Simply put the nation still needs to revise child labor laws. Just don’t ban child labor completely though.
This means they can search you anywhere other than your home and your garden, or the home or garden of someone who has given you permission to be there. If you are somewhere without the permission of the homeowner or somewhere where you shouldn’t be you can be searched. Also the police have the right to use reasonable force when they stop and search however it must be used as last resort. Without this power police could be even powerless as people could be even carrying weapons with them therefore society could feel unsafe. Removing clothing A police officer can ask you to take off your coat, jacket or gloves.
When someone is labelled an offender they are forced by society to live according to this label which could minimise their chances of being law abiding citizens and limit their chances of finding decent jobs. When deviants realise that society is defining them as thieves or offenders, they feel the need to act out on these labels. Deviants then try to adapt to their new profile by participating in various deviant (criminal)