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Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox

Posted by samzenpus on from the put-down-the-controller dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In Belfast a High Court judge has ordered a 13 year old to surrender his Xbox to the authorities. The boy was charged with a series of robberies and in the bail application the judge asked the boy what he owned that meant a lot to him. The teenager said it was his Xbox games system. The judge told the youth that the surrender of the Xbox would show him what it was like to have something he really valued taken from him."

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  1. Excellent! by msobkow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love it when a judge thinks and makes the punishment fit the crime. Having his parents pay a fine would have been pointless. Gotta make the punishment hurt for it to have any effect.

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    1. Re:Excellent! by davester666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, now the kid has to go out and shoplift another XBox...

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    2. Re:Excellent! by Mashiki · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Right. And criminology is still in the dark ages, and we use leeches and blood letting as the main sources of medical treatment today. Dig your head out of your ass, there are competing theories on crime. And many criminal theories rest into two specific schools. Those being:

      Bad parenting+lifestyle+societal factors = criminal action
      and
      Chance+opportunity+risk = criminal action

      I believe that the second is more appropriate. As even in average, society roughly 40% of people will steal if they feel they can get away with it, and 30% will steal no matter what. This is your basic material covered in your crim101 courses.

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    3. Re:Excellent! by Sabriel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Chance+opportunity-risk-empathy = criminal action

      Further refinement?

  2. Re:harsh, but... by Osgeld · · Score: 5, Insightful

    harsh? really? johnny jackoff is involved in a series of robberies and you consider taking his fucking video games away harsh

    piss off, my mom would hide the power brick to my sega for weeks at a time for failing to keep my grades up and this stain gets the same treatment for robbery and you fucking find it harsh???

    first it was the pepsi generation, now its the pussy generation ... fucking wonderful

  3. Re:Excellent! said the kid by Locutus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    not likely. He told the Judge it was his Xbox because he really liked his PS3 and didn't want to lose that.

    LoB

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  4. Re:Accused but not yet convicted by metacell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ITT: everyone on slashdot but a few misunderstands what bail is.

    It's a guarantee of showing up to court. He gets his xbox back if he shows up to court. If he doesn't, it becomes property of the government. Explain how this is unreasonable.

    *sigh* No, people here are not misunderstanding what bail is. They're misunderstanding what the issue is. From the fine article:

    The judge told the youth it would show him what it was like to have something he valued taken from him.

    That's clearly using bail as a form of punishment, not as a way to ensure the person returns to face trial. It's a misuse of the bail system.