Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The court shall nor­mally sus­pend the ex­e­cu­tion of a mon­et­ary pen­alty or a cus­todi­al sen­tence of no more than two years un­less an un­sus­pen­ded sen­tence ap­pears to be ne­ces­sary in or­der to pre­vent the of­fend­er from com­mit­ting fur­ther felon­ies or mis­de­mean­ours.³³

² If the of­fend­er re­ceived a sus­pen­ded or un­sus­pen­ded cus­todi­al sen­tence of more than six months with­in the five years pri­or to the of­fence, the sen­tence may only be sus­pen­ded where the cir­cum­stances are es­pe­cially fa­vour­able.³⁴

³ The sus­pen­sion of the ex­e­cu­tion of a sen­tence may also be re­fused if the of­fend­er has failed to make a reas­on­able ef­fort to com­pensate for any loss or dam­age he may have caused.

⁴ A sus­pen­ded sen­tence may be com­bined with a fine in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 106.³⁵