• amzd@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    should he just be punished?

    How sad that people would want to punish someone who doesn’t even know what they’ve done wrong. I like to believe we have prisons to safely keep people who cannot live around others without significantly hurting them, not to punish them.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Punishment really doesn’t work, it’s literally a coin toss as to whether someone will reoffend.

      Norway had high rates of recidivism decades ago and pivoted to a rehabilitation approach and has one of the lowest recidivism rates.

      I find that people that can’t let go of punishment don’t care about victims and the aim of a justice system should be to limit the number of victims of crime, by whatever means.

      People in Norwegian prisons have access to knives and have less stabbings than the USA where you can’t have knives in prison.

      • Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nz
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        Punishment is about virtue signalling. The point is to be socially seen to oppose immoral behaviour through violence. It’s about affirming your social status as a good person.

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          Punishment is about virtue signalling

          Ooh careful. Don’t use that phrase. You might trigger the fascists!