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| Authored by: Doug Sibley on Thursday, May 01 2003 @ 09:09 AM CDT |
So a sentence is a deterrant measure. This is still different then a punishment where the motivation is "they hurt my loved one so they should be hurt" or similar. Deterrence is what you've attributed to punishment "lock them up so that the consequences will outweigh the benefits and people won't commit (more) crimes".
When there is catch-and-release it's not jail failing to protect socity, if anybody, it's the justice system (right? since jails don't get to decide what the sentence should be).
For property crime, economic costs should be taken into account: the cost of incarceration, the cost of policing, the costs of theft, and the costs of private security. For non-property crime, the bias should be towards protecting society. If this means that for some, jail is a big "rehab centre" then so be it (when criminals are in jail already it does make sense to give them rehab if it will address some of the factors of the criminality -- it also makes some sense to tie supervised release to dealing with personal causes of criminality so there is an incentive to deal with such; this, I believe, helps protect society, minimize costs without endangering society, and hopefully have a criminal who can emerge as a productive citizen).[ Parent ]
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