The party's plan also includes investment in Māori Legal Aid, reinstating the right for all prisoners to vote, and decriminalisation of drug use and possession.
Society has a limit to how much of “crime X” they’ll tolerate.
Some should be exactly one: murder, rape, toture, etc. I’d argue that provable attempts at those count as one, so the threshold is actually less than one.
I feel like pretty much everything else can be “civil” consequences:
financial crimes: forbidden from holding a position with fiduciary responsibility, repayment, punitive damages.
It’s a tough call in deciding the seriousness of an offence when deciding the consequences, especially when it is a repeat. The costs of incarceration are huge, yet it seems to be needed to hopefully discourage the more serious crimes.
A good question. The recidivism costs I guess are what most, me included, will view as a valid reason to continue imprisonment for serious offences.
Me too.
Society has a limit to how much of “crime X” they’ll tolerate.
Some should be exactly one: murder, rape, toture, etc. I’d argue that provable attempts at those count as one, so the threshold is actually less than one.
I feel like pretty much everything else can be “civil” consequences:
What I’m really unsure about is, arguably, progenitors to violence:
Just to throw a few into discussion.
It’s a tough call in deciding the seriousness of an offence when deciding the consequences, especially when it is a repeat. The costs of incarceration are huge, yet it seems to be needed to hopefully discourage the more serious crimes.