Generally true, but if nobody wants to press criminal charges and the prosecutor doesn't want to waste his time, then there's not much that can be done. The community takes care of the problem itself.
Taking this to the simplistic: Imagine your kid and the neighbor's kid are friends but get in a fight in your back yard over a broken toy. That's criminal assault and battery, you could call the police and it gets solved in juvie. But you call the neighbor over and work it out yourselves, apologies and reparations for broken toys made.
“Generally true, but if nobody wants to press criminal charges and the prosecutor doesn’t want to waste his time, then there’s not much that can be done. The community takes care of the problem itself.”
Here in Florida a stabbing is considered a felony. In felony cases the victim does not determine whether charges are filed, the state usually determines it.
Broken toys are significantly less serious than an attempted murder.
Bzactly. If my neighborhood organization wants to judge against my poor gardening, they can haul me before their tribunal at risk of expulsion from the next lemonade party.
Civil Society relies on organizations (religious, community, volunteer, social, etc.) to adjudicate their own internal disputes that don’t infringe on society’s civil / criminal laws. Without that ability, the courts would be overrun.
In some ways, this occurs in America, where folks will sue over a hang nail.