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What are you proposing instead? A) Imprison every stalker for life or kill them B) Focus on rehabilitation and prevention. E.g. relocate the stalker to anothe
by goodpoint 4y ago
What are you proposing instead?
A) Imprison every stalker for life or kill them
B) Focus on rehabilitation and prevention. E.g. relocate the stalker to another city, monitor their movements etc.
- alex_sf 4y agoThese are intentionally bad choices. A) That's disproportionate. B) This requires an extensive police state. Much more simply: evaluate each crime based on the severity, likelihood of re-offense, and apply a sentence commensurate with the crime. We could make lots of efforts to make this a fair and impartial process. I wonder what we could name that?
- goodpoint 4y ago> B) This requires an extensive police state. If anything it's the contrary.
- thefounder 4y agoUnless there is way to test the likeabity for it to do it again I think imprisonment for most of its life is not that harsh if it's a second time recidivist. It's pretty obvious that person is not fit to live in a free society.
- alasdair_ 4y agoIf the punishment for stalking a second time is life in prison, then quite a few more stalkers will resort to murder since the punishment is the same.
- thefounder 4y agoI don't think that will happen. However if that's the case then we need close monitoring/full surveilance of first time offenders. Perhaps also additional requirements (i.e 1000 miles restraining order). Breaking the restraining order should put the offender automatically back in jail. I'm pretty sure we have tools to deal with stalkers. It's just that there seems to be no will to re-educate them.