Crime is not distributed evenly across society for both victims or perpetrators, that doesn't mean that we should all become subject to crime as a result. I do

Crime is not distributed evenly across society for both victims or perpetrators, that doesn't mean that we should all become subject to crime as a result. I do believe we should make sentencing more fair and not overly police people on the basis of race or class of course. If someone is caught doing X violent/antisocial crime (including things like burglary or redicivist theft) they should not be left to continue doing it even if they are in a disadvantaged group. A lot of crimes are not one-offs but something done over and over again until they're caught. This applies for both (sexual) assault and property theft. Laws against those need to be enforced even if the first X don't involve prison, because the people stealing hundreds of dollars of merch every week or picking fights are making their communities worse in systemic ways, and after a certain point separation from society is the only way to protect everybody else from the antisocial behavior (and serve as a deterrent). No, I am not affected by a single instance of someone taking candy from Walgreens. But I am when so much theft occurs that everything valuable is locked up, when prices are raised to account for shrinkage, or when retail operations close down. I am when I have to tell people to leave nothing in their car and not to park in certain spots with frequent breakins, or when I can't leave my bike locked up outside even for a few minutes, or when I can't get packages delivered to my address anymore because it will be immediately stolen if I'm not there. The victims in aggregate aren't just the people or businesses being stolen from, but all the other people in the community who subsequently have to live in a food desert, pay high prices, or can't even get deliveries any more because there is so much theft. Scandinavian countries have generous social systems which reduce the demand for crime in the first place. We could have that too.