Cambodian police have taken to shaming offenders by giving them silly haircuts

[Nemesis]

Cambodian police frustrated by constant gang activities have resorted to a novel approach to shame offenders into changing their ways and began giving them silly haircuts as part of their punishment, police said.

A local mass circulation Khmer-language newspaper featured a front page colour picture of three young gangsters with a large stripe shorn out of their hair down the middle and the sides, and their hair teased out like clowns - a move police hope will shame appearance-conscious young scoundrels into reform.

Police said the three were members of a gang who had terrorised a small provincial town, stealing and intimidating locals. They said the trio were educated, given haircuts, told not to re-offend and then released.

"There is no law to say we can do this, but there is no law to say we cannot. They have been warned many times and they don't stop," a senior police officer from the Thai border province of Koh Kong said by telephone.

"There is trouble from these people all the time and all police can do is educate them and then release them
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[haswtch]

I kinda like this, actually.