They must be court-martialed when they knowingly write bad checks?
I have written some checks many years ago unknowingly that bounced, but always took care of them when I got the notice from my bank.
No, these were not unknowing actions. First-time .. and sometimes even second- and third-time bouncers .. received counseling and, usually in the third-time scenario, non-judicial/company-level punishment. These were people who, over a period of time, went from bank to bank, opening accounts with small amounts of money, received their checkbooks, and then proceeded to write large amounts of checks against nothing in their account.
I just thought it was always amusing that their first statement to investigators was "I still had checks left, so I thought I could use them".