Sophia wrote on Jan 23
rd, 2023 at 11:31am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 23
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Kat wrote on Jan 23
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greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 23
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Gnads wrote on Jan 23
rd, 2023 at 10:45am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 23
rd, 2023 at 10:32am:
Gnads wrote on Jan 23
rd, 2023 at 9:19am:
Time to put in place some serious consequences.
Do you believe harsher penalties will deter other would-be criminals?
Well the progressive softly softly counselling approach has been a dismal failure .....
the skyrocketing rate of juvenile crime is testament to that.
Yes, but do you believe harsher penalties will deter other would-be criminals?
It never has in the past, so why would it now? Exactly.
US states which have the death penalty have higher murder rates than those which don't.
Harsher penalties are about revenge - they don't deter crime.
Unless I see stats or links to compare it… I ask… how can it be… harsher laws won’t deter criminal actions?
Does it all come down to each individual thinking it won’t happen to them?
US states which have the death penalty have
higher murder rates than those which don't.
There is no harsher penalty than death so if harsh penalties actually deterred crime, murder wouldn't exist in the countries which have capital punishment.
Do harsher punishments deter crime?It’s easy to think that the threat of punishment will simply dissuade someone from doing the wrong thing. But it turns out that deterring would-be criminals by instilling doubt or fear of the consequences is
more tale than truth.
“Deterrence is very largely an article of faith,” says UNSW Law Emeritus Professor David Brown. “I call it sentencing’s dirty secret because it’s just assumed that there is deterrence … but what the research shows is that the system
has little to no deterrent effect.”
The criminal justice researcher says harsher punishments, such as longer prison sentences, not only
do not prevent crime but may actually have the opposite effect.
“What research is increasingly showing is that imprisonment itself and punishment more generally is actually criminogenic –
it makes it more likely that people are going to re-offend,” he says.
Yeah ... so your stating the reasons why not.....