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Hopefully, but to be blunt, if that model of punition actually worked, then the homicide rate would have been lower back when gibbeting was still a thing.

• smt88 6y ago
  Financial criminals and murderers are not comparable. Prison is like a death sentence to a rich person.
  • mumblemumble 6y ago
    True, they aren't, but we're not talking about the class of crime. We're talking about a particular kind of incentive model.
    • smt88 6y ago
      The "incentive" for murder is usually that someone is angry and not thinking about consequences at all. Financial crimes are usually slow-burning and almost never crimes of passion. Prison doesn't stop murderers, but that has no bearing on whether it stops Madoffs.
      • mumblemumble 6y ago
        Alternatively, we could look at the empirical studies, which seem to indicate that, regardless of the different ways one could hypothesize that in some contexts but not in others, the reality is that, across the board, making sentences tougher has little deterrent effect. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterrence https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr...