> I would be in favour of less incarceration and more rehabilitation and reinsertion into society as happy/useful participants While I agree that mere incarcer

> I would be in favour of less incarceration and more rehabilitation and reinsertion into society as happy/useful participants While I agree that mere incarceration is often fruitless in terms of helping the person being incarcerated, one must be careful to not replace prison with brainwashing, to put it bluntly. That is, rehabilitation might work with narcotic addictions, but social issues (I am categorizing violence as a social issue, because it necessarily involves interaction between two or more persons) revolve around opinions, beliefs, conscious and unconscious assumptions about others, etc. I recall movies and TV show episodes revolving around the totalitarian nature of some criminal justice system that seeks to fix inmates's behavior through overt (torture) or covert (therapy, interviewing, social engineering, etc.) means. > I believe that most people would not commit the crimes they commit if they had access to better welfare/education/neighbourhoods/etc. This is essentially the idea that poverty causes crime, which is a controversial position. This might be why you have gotten downvoted.