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In a perfect world if you extended this beyond DUI the punishments given out would be reduced. Especially, the punishments that happen after you serve your tim
by hackeraccount 11y ago
In a perfect world if you extended this beyond DUI the punishments given out would be reduced. Especially, the punishments that happen after you serve your time. One of my biggest problems with criminal justice system is the way the ex-cons are dogged by their mistakes for the rest of their life. I understand the interest an employer (or in the worst of cases a neighbor) might have in knowing that about a person but... somehow it seems deeply unfair.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> I understand the interest an employer (or in the worst of cases a neighbor) might have in knowing that about a person but... somehow it seems deeply unfair. It is unfair if you believe that the jail is supposed to rehabilitate people. It seems to me that people believe it in theory but don't believe it in practice.
- agarden 11y agoIt is also unfair if their crime was more a matter of the circumstances they found themselves in than their baked-in character. For example, if they got convicted for second-degree murder because they had a hot-tempered friend in college who started a fight, they tried to held, and then the friend pulled a gun and shot someone. That's the kind of mistake some (many?) people are not likely to make again. But the record is permanent. And due to Fundamental Attribution Error, the world is inclined to believe that they were involved and did what they did with intent because they had and continue to have a flawed character.