The Amish Have Neither the Resources nor the Desire to Use

question 35

Multiple Choice

The Amish have neither the resources nor the desire to use prison as a sanction against members of their community who violate the rules. What sanction do they use instead?

• A) Various methods of corporal punishment are used, whereby petty criminals may be branded, have their ears cropped, have their noses slit, or even have their fingers cut off.
• B) Offenders are flogged or put in stocks to be publicly humiliated for a short period of time.
• C) Monetary fines are used for most norm violations.
• D) Meidung, or shunning, is used, a process whereby no one within the community will associate or even talk with a rule breaker for a set period of time.
• E) The offender is mandated to provide physical labor for the community.

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