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Originally Posted by Graham
I find it strange that you cannot see that punishment does not necessarily, in and of itself, *stop* crime.
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So you are seriously saying that if we removed all punishments for crimes there would be no change to the ammount of crime commited? (since punishment does not stop crime)
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If it makes you feel any better, let's redefine obliging someone to take part in a rehabilitation scheme as a "punishment". Does that help?
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I don't have a problem with a rehab scheme being 'punishment'-for certain crimes, but you seem to have a problem with accepting that criminals need punishment for their crimes.
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What good is "Justice" if the punishment just makes future crime more likely? It is well known that putting someone into a prison gives an inexperienced offender the opportunity to learn from the "experts" about how to not get caught the next time!
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"As the debate stands, citizens are in effect held hostage to threats by the outlaws (â₠œIf you put me in prison, Iâ₠™ll just become a worse criminalââ‚ ‚¬Ã‚ÂÂ). "-from the article.
Maby the way to stop them becoming worse criminals in prison is to have them all in solitary....I don't know the answer, neither do you.