09-20-2005, 01:39 PM
kandrathe,Sep 19 2005, 09:42 PM Wrote: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.
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.
[right][snapback]89728[/snapback][/right]
Not necessarily. I could look at both ends and the sies of the horse if they effect crime. Providing jobs effects a lot more than crime, and there are plenty of reasons to do that already. However, things such as the court system and punishments probably also effect crime rates, and as there is not much more else they effect, I don't see why they shouldn't get some attention for lowering crime rates if they have an effect as well.
Since this was a death penalty sub thread, I used death panelty for its crime effects. If this were a homelsssness sub thread and someone brought up crime, I'd add something on homelessness.
I may be dead, but I'm not old (source: see lavcat)
The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)
The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)