You are arguing reformation vs. restitution. Most countries (and their electorate) would rather have restitution, not because restitution is a better solution,

You are arguing reformation vs. restitution. Most countries (and their electorate) would rather have restitution, not because restitution is a better solution, but because vengeance has been the gold standard of justice for millennia. It's a self-perpetuating zeitgeist. The irony is that these systems do not achieve restitution. The victims may experience righteous indignation, but that will soon fade away. Meanwhile the perpetrators gets to spend a few years among their peers in crime university. > The Swedes That is a reformative incarceration system.