09-20-2005, 03:42 AM
Minionman,Sep 19 2005, 08:33 PM Wrote:Arguments around crime policy seem to revolve around these arguments, but I'm surprised that it doesn't all focus onto one thing: reducing crime. I don't care if someone gets 3 years jail or community service, I just want to have less chance of getting beat up or killed or such. Whether death penalty does this is up for grabs.Justice needs to hold people equally accountable for their transgressions. It seldom does, but that is the ideal that we strive for. Rehabilitation is a modern concept. Back in the good old days, most often prison is where you went to suffer a death of negligence and disease at best and torture at the hands of sadistic guards at worst.
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If you want to focus on reducing crime you are looking at the wrong end of the horse. Try the feeding side where you educate the disadvantaged, provide jobs for the unemployed, and hope for the hopeless.