Criminal punishment research consistently shows that reality does not follow initial intuition here. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/ann

Criminal punishment research consistently shows that reality does not follow initial intuition here. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-111524-094646 https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur... "Unfortunately, so far, the existing empirical work has not had a central place in policy, legislation, and political discourse.” (“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result”)