عقوبة العمل للنفع العام في التشريع الجزائري

Abstract EN

The Social Defense School is based on the idea of reforming, rehabilitating and correcting the perpetrator, This can only be achieved by establishing mechanisms that embody this trend.

On this basis, some legislations adopted these legal mechanisms, as applying the alternatives penalties for corporales punishment, especially those that deprive freedom of, This is after countries found that their continued application of negative penalties freedom in the differentes crimes has contributed greatly to increasing crime and criminals.

In addition to the material and human costs that countries have incurred in building and managing prisons, So it became clear that this view should be changed by taking into account the circumstances that led to the perpetrator committing this crime, By applying alternative punishments who a self-interest is achieved for the offender from subjecting him to a set of conditions and thus avoids the penalty of imprisonment, And in achieving general deterrence, security, and stability that society aspires to.

And many are the alternative penalties that most legislation followed, such as the electronic bracelet.

The labor penalty for the public benefit is considered one of the most alternative penalties practiced by legislation, by the positive role of perpetrator to provide free social service to the community, By integrating him into society rather than integrating him into penal institutions.

Accordingly, the penalty for working for the public benefit came to achieve the principles of modern criminal legislation, from reforming and rehabilitating the perpetrator and providing social services to the community, The Algerian legislation is one of the legislations that adopted this approach through Law No.

09-01 of 25/02/2009, However, in practical terms, this punishment did not achieve the desired goals in Algerian community