Even if Danish prisons were luxury studio apartments, the data doesn't support Reddit-style They Just Need Hugs rehabilitation. Every first world country has roughly the same recidivism rate no matter how they treat their prisoners. The fact is, some people are just evil, and those people are going to reoffend whether you treat them like gods or animals. That's what we used to have gallows for, back before the world collectively lost its mind.
The number one tool for reducing crime is warehousing criminals away from society. Even among criminals, those that reoffend are a subset of the convict population. So taking repeat offenders and locking them away is the best way to reduce crime. That's why Three Strikes works so well.
The number one indicator of a cheater, is if they cheated before. Of the mentally ill, if they have a mental illness. Of a bestselling author, if they've wrote a prior bestselling work. Of a criminal, if they commit crimes.
For some reason, people in CurrentYear seem to think that looking at the immediate past and intuiting future behavior from it is somehow illogical or evil, when it's the basis for Science as a very concept.
Even if Danish prisons were luxury studio apartments, the data doesn't support Reddit-style They Just Need Hugs rehabilitation. Every first world country has roughly the same recidivism rate no matter how they treat their prisoners. The fact is, some people are just evil, and those people are going to reoffend whether you treat them like gods or animals. That's what we used to have gallows for, back before the world collectively lost its mind.
The number one tool for reducing crime is warehousing criminals away from society. Even among criminals, those that reoffend are a subset of the convict population. So taking repeat offenders and locking them away is the best way to reduce crime. That's why Three Strikes works so well.
The number one indicator of a cheater, is if they cheated before. Of the mentally ill, if they have a mental illness. Of a bestselling author, if they've wrote a prior bestselling work. Of a criminal, if they commit crimes.
For some reason, people in CurrentYear seem to think that looking at the immediate past and intuiting future behavior from it is somehow illogical or evil, when it's the basis for Science as a very concept.
apparently the cause of the death penalty being removed in britain at least is a literal communist foreign agent.