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That's simply not true. Our criminal justice system isn't aimed towards reform, not really. It's aligned with a puritanical sense of punishment.
by srmatto 8y ago
That's simply not true. Our criminal justice system isn't aimed towards reform, not really. It's aligned with a puritanical sense of punishment.
- burfog 8y agoIt can be many things at once. 1. It can reform. This is often officially implied by names that contain the word "corrections". 2. It can satisfy victims who would otherwise enact their own idea of justice. 3. It can be a deterrent for others. 4. It can be a deterrent for that same person, if later released. 5. It can protect society by making the attackers be dead or physically contained in cages, and thus away from society. It's hard to rape kids when you are all alone in a concrete box. 6. It can fulfill a religious duty. You seem to think that numbers 2 and 6 are all we get out of the deal. This is not the case. We get all of the above. With the possible exception of number 6, all of them are beneficial. I'm pretty sure that number 5 is what the American system is mainly about. If you can't behave, you can't be with the rest of us.