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Why not volunteer for the victims of crimes instead of for the perpetrators?

• vkou 8y ago
  I imagine it's because most people would rather do just that.
• Fnoord 8y ago
  I'd agree on a grand scale the primary focus should be there first but perpetrators are, in a way, victims as well. Even if you disagree (which is fair enough) they're still human beings.
  • ggg9990 8y ago
    Perpetrators are in a way victims like I am in a way a basketball superstar who never really reached his potential
    • Fnoord 8y ago
      Yes, because cause and effect isn't so clear. A child who got molested might end up traumatized and end up as a predator themselves. Or become a victim later in life once more because he/she attracts them. The question is in the why. What happened that someone committed a crime? And was the crime that awful to begin with? Wozniak and Jobs did phone phreaking in the 70s. Didn't get busted, but only because the cop didn't recognize a blue box. Something simple such as cannabis isn't decriminalized in the USA yet, yet the prisons are full with cheap labour... I mean, prisoners who possessed or sold cannabis. In my country, guns are pretty much illegal, and cannabis is decriminalized. The amount of robberies and shootings on schools is near 0. The amount of people in jail due to cannabis is also near 0. Talk about creating basketball players out of nothing.