Are community services working better than fines? In the last few years, felonies haven't been punished by fines but community services. These alternatives punishment might be more efficient than economic penalties for many reasons: In the first term, criminals would learn, by their effort, the importance of their transgressions. Furthermore, they would work for the community and their sentence could represent a positive aspect for the society. For example, they could work improving services such as street cleaning and public gardens care. Secondly, if we force criminals to do these works by a court, they could talk about their experiences. In this way, other people could learn the risks of making criminal actions and would avoid it as well. For instance, community services are suitable in cases of driving felonies. In these cases, the experiences of driver lawbreakers would aware other drivers. On the other hand, there are many people that claim for harder punishments and this measures might be weak for them. That's because of service works might exist only for few unimportant crimes. In conclusion, even though criminals would be paying their lawsuits, this way of sanction is only appropriate in a few numbers of cases. And, in any case, it will not replace usual alternatives such as fines and jail penalties.