Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
I'm rarely serious, this is one of the few times I am being serious.
fair enough
I think you are either underestimating how much of a role someone's social situation plays in their criminal behaviour, or overestimating how much of an impact rehabilitation can have on someone independant of these situations.
I'm not trying to appologize for anyone, I want violent people off the street as much as you, its just that in a lot of these situations crime isn't a result of a fault with a person, but of a conflict that deals with individual dientity, poverty, and a lot of other things.
In many ways, going to prison once makes it 1000 times easier to go back a second time. Sure, I do want violent people off the street, but if there are ways that prisons could sort of sort through who is evil and who is a "victim-of-circumstance", for the lack of a better term, wouldn't that be beneficial for society as a whole?
Originally posted by Wild ShadowOK, obviously someone who gets arrested twice for shoplifting should be given more chances. That's why I said "depending on the severity of the crime."
you guys realize innocent ppl go to jail as well some are even non violent petty crimes if you can call them crimes at all.. some are in jail for political decent more than anything else.
Rapists, murderers, shit like that, less leeway.
Originally posted by inimalistVictim of circumstance? When someone commits a crime, they do it out of choice. They either choose to obey the law or not.
fair enoughI think you are either underestimating how much of a role someone's social situation plays in their criminal behaviour, or overestimating how much of an impact rehabilitation can have on someone independant of these situations.
I'm not trying to appologize for anyone, I want violent people off the street as much as you, its just that in a lot of these situations crime isn't a result of a fault with a person, but of a conflict that deals with individual dientity, poverty, and a lot of other things.
In many ways, going to prison once makes it 1000 times easier to go back a second time. Sure, I do want violent people off the street, but if there are ways that prisons could sort of sort through who is evil and who is a "victim-of-circumstance", for the lack of a better term, wouldn't that be beneficial for society as a whole?