Never taken criminology. I have studied our system, at a high level, compared to the rest of the world. Among first world nations we have the highest rate of incarceration and the highest rate of recidivism.
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Sweden? Norway? Denmark? Finland? Germany? Japan? Canada? Literally all do more than the easy "throw the book at them" method.
I am from America and live in Missouri. My point was, that you took out of context, is that "If we can't correct the behavior in someone, who are we to say they were wrong?" That is literally the sentence above.
Its an apartheid relic. They took away jury trials to keep black people from sitting on juries in South Africa: somehow in the 2 decades since apartheid ended, no one has brought it back.
Links? Also, "almost had a fight" isn't violence necessarily. I don't see a past record of criminal activity or lots of fights and victims. I do see erratic, hyper-masculine behavior, but I wouldn't argue that it proves that he can't be fixed.
My point is that it typically just doesn't work. We have an incredibly high recidivism rate in this country, so clearly just punishing people isn't helping. The countries with low recidivism rates and lower rates of crime overall take a vastly different approach to how the justice system treats offenders, with the…
Wrong. If we can't correct the behavior in someone, who are we to say they were wrong?
Your statement doesn't make sense. I mean, first there is your thinking "the only had one murder to commit," as if you are assuming they HAD TO murder (like they were getting it out of their system).
Well, statistics is one thing. We can see that first time murderers generally don't recommit (not at the rate of the rest of society), and when they do its far less likely to be murder a second time.
He won't be "free," mind you. And no one is saying he "Accidentally" killed anyone. There is a difference between per-meditated murder, which involves planning and a motive, and culpable homicide, which does not.
This would be true assessment, if you actually believe these people "needed" to kill. Most first time murderers are crimes of passion, that is to say it wasn't their normal psychology to do so. It was a psychotic break.
Yes. It is a bit difficult for people to understand, but "like for like" is just reinforcing problematic societal schema and "us vs them" mentality.
No. Firearms aren't allowed to felons in South Africa (same as in America). In fact as much as I get guff for apparently being a "gun nut" on Gawker, I'd rather America's firearms laws were closer to South Africa's than ours. There they require permits just to own them, here so long as you are 18 and not already a…
Because he isn't. In South Africa, you have to prove a danger to society exists to send someone to jail. Why Pistorius clearly has murdered someone, can we argue he is likely to do it again? And in short enough term that therapy, counseling, and possibly some socialization training wouldn't be a better fix?
Just fuck him, Jen. You don't have to marry the crazy peen.
Your bunny looks precisely nothing like Gandalf. It does though, however inexplicably, remind me of Ron Perlman from Sons of Anarchy.
I should elaborate:
Most of the time, the car is on the road...
Well, I've been here for a few weeks now, and I've realized that you were absolutely right. Not about the gun thing. I haven't bought a gun,