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No, I'm pro fine, as long as it's reasonable and has a max and no minimum so a judge can cut a poor person who just didn't know the law a break. But jail just s
by ch4s3 9y ago
No, I'm pro fine, as long as it's reasonable and has a max and no minimum so a judge can cut a poor person who just didn't know the law a break. But jail just seems crazy, especially in a place like California where the prisons are bursting at the seams.
> As to public health campaigns and other public concerns: are we any good at those?
There's some pretty good data about education/campaigns and teen pregnancy if you care to google for it. Basically, yes, it works.
- DanBC 9y ago> Basically, yes, it works. It doesn't seem to work that well. https://discover.dc.nihr.ac.uk/portal/article/4000763/teaching-sexual-health-at-school-improved-knowledge-but-not-safe-sex-practices https://discover.dc.nihr.ac.uk/portal/article/4000763/teachi... > School-based sexual health interventions improved knowledge and attitudes in school students up to 18. However, they failed to consistently improve safe sex practices or reduce unwanted pregnancies. Abstinence-based messages were least effective. > This review of reviews included 37 systematic reviews of school-based sexual health interventions. It excluded low-quality reviews and spanned 1990 to 2016, so is likely to reflect the best evidence available on the topic.
- ghaff 9y agoI'm not an expert but my understanding is that PSAs have a pretty mixed record historically (including some that, strictly from an advertising impact perspective, were pretty well done). e.g. Keep America Beautiful. In conjunction with other actions, behaviors such as smoking can be altered. But it takes a lot of wood behind a lot of arrows to shift public attitudes.
- ch4s3 9y agoYeah, that's about what I recalled. It seems much more effective than prison.