Agreed. If not hope for themselves, at least plenty of examples of others moving on with their life after knuckling under and grasping the opportunities offered.
DMD and NSIS having a civilised chat here. I feel like my work here is done, no longer should I feel the need to encourage love and harmony among the ranks of not606. @brb you can now move me upstairs... thanks, it’s been a pleasure everybody, take good care of each other.
There'll always be exceptions whichever rules you put in place, your particular example is so incredibly rare it's not worth worrying about. The other 99.9999% of criminals, it has been shown through mounds of empirical research, would indeed be more likely to change by being given viable options. Some people will always be involved in crime but that doesn't mean you can just shut out every single person due to that. In this country we criminalise people at the first opportunity and thus end most of their viable options for employment. After which they need to just bed down to a life of crime as that's their lot.
I agree with a lot of this and strongly disagree with chunks of it too. Overall some fair points though.
Psychopaths are almost impossible to analyse, as they soon work out what answers to offer. One psychopath described attempts to rehabilitate him as unlikely to be successful as he reckons he was like a cat in a world of mice. It was simply his fundamental nature. There's a good presentation on Tedtalks, about a guy who faked insanity to get a cushy sentence. Ultimately, he found it easier to prove he was insane, than to convince them he was faking. He did over 1 years in Broadmoor instead of what would have been less than a five year sentence.
I think a big problem in terms of re offending (though mainly smaller crime granted) is the fact a lot of people become institutionalised and struggle to cope with life outside. It's a normality for career criminals too, 6 months inside is almost their equivalent of a spell unemployed.
I tend to agree with most of that and my experience of people I went to school with that were habitual prison goers is much the same as yours. I guess the stats would say that the poorest are more likely to offend due to the regularity of those crimes - shoplifting, burglary etc - though of course that's not to say all thieves and burglars are from the poorest sections of society. Bang on about tax evasion etc - and those ****s cost the country fortunes.
Don't tell anyone, but my initial reply to the question was going to be "Ian Brady" as he left in a way which meant he was certain to not re offend.
... where was the tangent Einstein? ... some crimes don't deserve rehabilitation... consistent throughout ... If a big cat goes rogue and develops a taste for human flesh you extinguish the threat ... you'd probably try and 'counsel' the ****er into becoming Vegan
Going by the song, it's surprising nobody has tried the same method of rehabilitation since. It's all done by giving them the wrong sized shoes apparently.
You’re confusing me........pointing out.......where you were simply factually incorrect with being some....... sort of extreme liberal do-gooder because you fell into the....... obvious hole of “try telling that to the family of the victim”....... which is one step away from “you wouldn’t........ feel that way if it was your family”. It’s fine, mate, it happens........... ...................
Which goes to show, you just never know what anyone is capable of doing. Got out of prison, and the rest is history.
