عقوبة العمل للنفع العام في التشريع الجزائري

Abstract EN

The work penalty for public benefit is one of the most prominent punitive alternatives in the modern penal policy, as various legislations have sought to adopt it, with the aim of rehabilitating and integrating the convicted person, as well as activating the legal system by including it in its legal texts, and the work penalty system for public benefit is considered an alternative to penalties depriving freedom short the period due to its negative effects, which is the convicted person performing a beneficial act for the benefit of a body, institution, or public association free of charge for a legally specified period determined by the court, which has prompted specialists in the science of punishment to search for alternative penal systems that are more effective and achieve the purposes of contemporary penal policy with less costs, and benefit the community and the perpetrator with, according to certain controls.

where reality has proven that traditional punishments have not succeeded in achieving the aim of the modern penal policy in terms of reforming and rehabilitating the convicted person, and it has also failed to achieve deterrence of both general and special types, as a result of mixing between convicts, novices and frequent criminals, in addition to the exorbitant expenses that overburden the entire state.