When around 12, a friend stole an Andes mint from an open candy jar near the counter of a small grocery store. I think they were 5 cents. Busted. Held. Cops came. Then his mother, crying and in shame. Cop and his mom both gave the rest of us a Come To Jesus lecture. Quite a different world.
Liberal theory: “You must not discipline the child. You must reason with the child.”