Pete L wrote:There are two reasons for jail: punishment to encourage pause before action; and rehabilitiation. Rehab clearly doesn't work so well. Probably because we run the jails too full.
That still leaves a fair number of people who will remain a danger to society until they're too old to pose a danger.
I understood protecting the public was the number one consideration when deciding if a custodial sentence was appropriate?
Pete L wrote:In a civilized society what do you do with them...
I think we need to consider what this so called civilised society actually is. How do you define an ever changing subjective concept?
In my opinion it is a term randomly thrown around particularly by the politically correct who have spent little, if any, time considering what it is. The idea we can create a truly fair civilised society is a tad ambitious. IMO we should accept that fact and act accordingly.
Acting accordingly would see the most 'civilised' action being taken with the victim's human rights being priority, closely followed by preventing the offender breaking the rules of our civilised society in the future.
It is not civilised to let offenders break the rules of a civilised society time and time again I'd argue it is better to break the rules against an offender.
I think there are large numbers of the law abiding rather fed up with offenders human rights having higher priority than their own.
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