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> Singapore A caning and prison time for graffiti seems harsh. It would be interesting to know if the penalty or some other social pressure is what keeps the g

• Tade0 3y ago
  My bet is that it's the caning. There's something about the promise of physical pain that makes me shudder. I've seen graffiti in Switzerland, but never on buildings where people lived, because that would inevitably result in multiple calls to authorities from eyewitnesses and swift justice. People have been fined for less in Switzerland.
• resolutebat 3y ago
  Penalty plus ubiquitous CCTV: it's very hard to get away with it. For what it's worth, my understanding the harsh punishments originated from the period in the 1960s when graffiti was mostly Communist propaganda, at a time when neighboring Malaysia was still fighting a very real Communist insurgency.