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No. For both children and adults, sentencing strictness only deters a SINGLE category of crime--white collar. Most other forms of crime, especially violent, a
by bsder 4mo ago
No. For both children and adults, sentencing strictness only deters a SINGLE category of crime--white collar.
Most other forms of crime, especially violent, are almost completely insensitive to the harshness of any possible punishment sentence.
If a brain is sufficiently broken that it no longer has the limiter against harming another human being, prison sentences won't do anything to fix that.
- warumdarum 4mo agoNo true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador Turns out it works.
- bsder 4mo agoFlagged as AI Slop Bot. Wikipedia article makes no obvious mention of correlation between sentencing and deterrence. Linked article, in fact, demonstrates that alternative programs provided almost all the improvement.