Crime - part deux

That’s not true as it goes, as there is most definitely an element of punishment to jail time, as there should be. Rehabilitation isn’t the sole aim of incarceration. The entire justice system is about justice and a sentence should fit the crime.

 

But why do we punish? What is the logical reason for punishing?

There are two:
1) to prevent people commiting crimes.
2) to prevent people commiting crimes again.

Ultimately yes, prisons are about punishment. But the punishment is there to lower/prevent crime. We have prisons these days to maintain order, not just for revenge on people for being bad.

I absolutely agree, sentence should fit crime. Stealing a loaf of bread should not be the same as killing your neighbour and ****ing her corpse, or pounding her car.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be prisons, I'm saying this call every few years for longer and longer sentences is self-defeating and had been proved over and over again all over the world to not be effective in lowering crime. There is actual data that it doesn't.

If you get five years, or fifteen years in jail for beating someone badly, at that point there is a diminishing set of returns on preventing crime. Same with murder, I can't imagine many people would say "20 years in jail isn't so bad. I'll kill this guy." But then reconsider for thirty years.

Incidentally as an interesting aside... prisons, AS a punishment, is actually a fairly recent phenomenon before the late 1700's prisons were where you kept people before you decided how to punish them. Prisons weren't actually built with the intention of keeping people locked up as a punishment originally. It's where you kept people before putting them in the stocks, or hanging them, etc.

 

I agree that longer sentences largely don’t affect actual crime figures, but equally there are plenty of cases were the sentencing is pathetic imo. Moving away from sensational incidents but crimes like assaulting an emergency worker for example, which imo is not punished stringently enough, as it’s an offence that is carried out by those who have zero respect for authority and the society that they inhabit.

The issue of rehabilitation is a completely separate discussion imo, as there’s plenty of evidence from elsewhere that quality rehabilitation can really work and reduce reoffending rates dramatically when done well. We won’t pay for sufficient coppers and court time though so rehab is also currently massively under funded. The idea that getting tough on crime is just longer sentencing is for the birds, and is nothing but binary nonsense. Sentence lengths mean little if you’re not arresting or charging these criminals in the first place due to lack of resource.

 

I believe I can agree with all that.

 

I would try to kill the ****

That would give me closure but not make up for the loss of a daughter

 

Just wait until he goes to the toilet, light it up and claim you thought it was a burglar.

 

Man took his shoe off to hit the bus.

All need a slap, with a shoe

 

I don't think they realise mooning is a big part of the celebration.

 

Delay at ****ford for someone being taken ill.

Edit-Wrong thread. Don’t care.

 

Moonpig.com

 

**** outta here.

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You've just offended everyone. Good call

 

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Sorry mate was out celebrating Hannukah. U good?

 

Yeh bro, drinking waiting for the game.

Happy hannika

 

Thanks mate. It’s the Festival of Lights. Fully expecting Pool to light it up.

 

Bit random but how the **** is Alec Baldwin not in prison?

 

He didn't fire the gun according to him.

 

Yeah I read that yesterday, I think it was in the Guardian, repeating something that was said during some TV interview.

Claimed it wasn't him that fired the gun, I was like wtf, so what did happen?

Although it appears he said 'he didn't pull the trigger' so is this some sort of play on words...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ys-he-didnt-pull-the-trigger-in-rust-shooting

Sounds like another OJ Simpson style trial coming up, does the glove fit.

 

I thought the original story was that he was handed the gun by one of the crew but they never bothered to check the chamber before handing it over to him.