عقوبة العمل للنفع العام في السياسة العقابية الجزائرية

Abstract EN

The punishment for deprivation of liberty is the deterrent tool used by the state to confront the crime by rehabilitating the sentenced person within the penal institution by applying a set of punitive methods that ensure the reintegration of a good person into the community after his release.

However, the excessive use of this penalty, Which results in the possibility of acquiring new criminal skills as a result of mixing with precedents in the closed penal environment.

The penalty for the public benefit is one of the most recent penal systems introduced in Algeria by the legislator under Law No.

09-01 after having proved its effectiveness in the countries that were the first in its application, in order to avoid the disadvantages of short-term prison sentences, which help to increase the phenomenon of crime within society, instead of rehabilitating and reforming the convicted person to send him a good person in a society that comes out in a more criminal manner.