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What sort of sentence can you receive if you are found guilt? The English System gives the magistrate or the judge a lot of freedom in deciding on the sentence depending on exact circumstances of the crime and criminal. The lightest sentence possible is community service. This means that you do unpaid work for a fixed number of hours (between 40 and 240) on jobs such as painting hospital buildings or gardening for elderly people. You can be put on probation for a certain period of time. You have to visit your probation officer every week and keep out of trouble. There can be other conditions, for example, you have to accept treatment for drug addiction. You may have to pay a fine. For smaller things like driving offences, the fines are usually fixed amounts of money- perhaps 40 pounds for parking in a wrong place.
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But fines can be used for serious crimes if prison is not appropriate – for example, when a company breaks the law. Then the fine depends on ability to pay: rich people or organizations sometimes pay millions of pounds. The standard punishment for serious offences is prison. You will probably go to prison if you commit burglary, robbery, battery, rape or murder. For criminals between the age of 15 and 20 there are special young offenders institutions. Many people feel that criminals should go to prison but it is far from the perfect answer to the problem. When prisoners are released, they often carry on their lives of crime: in fact, they meet other criminals inside, get ideas from them and make useful contacts. A useful alternative to prison sentence is a suspended sentence. You remain free for a certain period of time and if you behave well, you will never serve your sentence. But if you commit another crime in the fixed period your suspended sentence is added to your new one.


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