FWIW, the most versatile & effective consequence in our program was "the essay."

As a Grade 7 brat I was given a memorable consequence by my teacher. After launching an eraser off my ruler I was told to write 100 times, "I will not fire projectiles in a trajectory arc through the atmosphere." I thought that was a pretty good consequence and gave our students similar assignments of "lines."

But essays struck me as a major improvement over lines: kids had to come up with ideas & explanations, it improved their spelling & grammar, the topic matched the misdeed, and the essays were often very interesting, sometimes hilarious. 

Every September the students were told how this system worked: a page in my teacher's daybook would be reserved for each of them. After a few infractions on the same issue they would be given a "final warning" and I'd note the topic in my book. After that, they started writing. Each essay was longer than its predecessor so I had to keep track of the date and the