If he is on drugs or just not seeing good people or growing up, yes. He will be clean, have three hots and a cot, and you wont have to worry that he is out in the streets.
I told my own kids that they ever got into legal trouble I will not help....I will let t hem face the full consequences. I meant it.
I am not you. But you asked.
I turned my daughter in for smoking pot iny house and when she was on parole.....no lawyer. I made her leave our house at 19 with no money from us for refusing to quit meth and cocaine.
She had a place to stay as long as she broke no rules there. NO rules or she was out. She didnt want to be on the street so she broke no rules.
She had to work for every dime and walk to work and back in Chicagos cold winter. No rides. No money for buses. She was about a mile away but working was a necessity. No drugs or cigarettes in this house. She quit both. Cooking and cleaning. She did them. She changed her life.
She quit.
So would I let a child of mine who acts up at the middle age of 37 go to jail for $600? Um, absolutely.
I would think it was the only way to possibly wake him up. I would have gone hard on him from early on, not to be mean, but to show him that bad, childish, immature, criminal behavior is NOT comfortable. But its never too late.
In jail, if he went, your son wouldnt be there for just $600 anyway.
He would be there for all the lousy choices he made in his llfe, for not acting more mature, for all criminal things he ever did and got off with, and for not learning from or appreciating all the breaks he has been given from you. He expects it now at age 37. Thats sad. For him. For you. At almost 40.
He is not a boy at all. He is a grown criminal. Nothing will change if you dont change how you respond to him.
I would let him go to jail and hope he hates it enough to think about his lousy choices that landed him there .
If you dont, then expect more of the same until you are no longer here. Then he will probably finally end up in jail, even prison.
I hate to sound so rough. It is what I really think. Others may feel differently.
Love and light! Stand strong
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