16 disadvantages for both the prisoner and the broad community. The injunction in point (5) was necessary because the new sentencing option has been received by sentencers, not with universal approval, but frequently with doubts and misgivings, - one judge indicated that he would have no truck with "trendy" sentences. The lack | of enthusiasm was perhaps not surprising: many of those concerned in the administration of criminal justice had acquired a particular mind-set as a result of years of habituation to the idea that imprisonment is the punishment of choice for serious crime, and it required a basic mental shift to regard imprisonment "as the sentencer's last resort". It has sometimes been suggested that correctional supervision is a "soft" sentencing option. Although different in kind from imprisonment,