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> "I don't know how you're defining "soft", but statistically community service is far more effective at reducing reoffending than prison is." It may well be
by dazc 10y ago
> "I don't know how you're defining "soft", but statistically community service is far more effective at reducing reoffending than prison is."
It may well be more effective but what I meant, in terms of being soft, is that it doesn't deter the initial offence in the same way the certainty of a prison sentence would do?
- lmm 10y agoDeterrence generally doesn't work though.
- dazc 10y agoWell, we don't know if does or not since those who have been deterred are not being counted.
- lmm 10y agoWe can measure what happens when e.g. sentencing guidelines for some particular crime change to favour prison over community service or vice versa.
- dazc 10y agoSeems like you have superior knowledge of the system so I'll defer to it. I guess I'm thinking of deterrents on a bigger scale. The kind of person who commits low-level crime probably doesn't weigh up the pros and cons (no pun intended) of getting caught?