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While anecdotal, this article seems to confirm my suspicion that motivation for crime is seldomly rational. It seems more often to be driven by some form of men
by jascii 5y ago
While anecdotal, this article seems to confirm my suspicion that motivation for crime is seldomly rational. It seems more often to be driven by some form of mental or emotional trauma.
Makes you wonder if treatment rather than punishment wouldn't be a more effective remedy...
- blowski 5y agoIn my school A-levels, I did a study on this. It was pretty obvious then that the main requirement of the law is to make people feel like retribution has been handed out, that the criminal has been made to suffer justly for their crimes. As you say, if the aim were to reduce crime, then alleviating poverty and providing better mental healthcare would be far more effective solutions.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoNope in my country you can get basic assistance which is €1100 per month. But when you see drug dealers driving around in BMWs...
- kevingadd 5y agoIs that enough for food and rent?
- mdp2021 5y ago> main requirement of the law is to make people feel like retribution has been handed out To call such idea of supporting low emotions "medieval" would be inappropriate towards the Middle Ages.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"It seems more often to be driven by some form of mental or emotional trauma." Maybe we are the ones with emotional trauma, staring at a screen 11 hours a day, obeying authority and aging without scratching the surface of life...
- mechanical_bear 5y ago> aging without scratching the surface of life... Speak for yourself friend.