I rather take their hands. At least one hand, preferably in public, on international television for the world to see what is real justice. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
That's how you end up being a country with one of the highest incarceration rates.
Making sure people have good lives, good jobs, good education, and are financially stable is how you prevent crime from happening in the first place.
And rehabilitation will always be more effective at dealing with recidivism than outright punishment, punishment that invariably treats people as animals, fucks up their ability to socialize and trust others, etc.
How you handle a crime in the moment is a different topic than what I was getting at. I'm talking about the structural problems that create crime and how they can be fixed.
I rather take their hands. At least one hand, preferably in public, on international television for the world to see what is real justice. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
That's how you end up being a country with one of the highest incarceration rates.
Making sure people have good lives, good jobs, good education, and are financially stable is how you prevent crime from happening in the first place.
And rehabilitation will always be more effective at dealing with recidivism than outright punishment, punishment that invariably treats people as animals, fucks up their ability to socialize and trust others, etc.
What the hell is a person being robbed supposed to do about that in the moment?
How you handle a crime in the moment is a different topic than what I was getting at. I'm talking about the structural problems that create crime and how they can be fixed.