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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    That’s how you end up being a country with one of the highest incarceration rates.

    Making sure people have good lives, good jobs, good education, and are financially stable is how you prevent crime from happening in the first place.

    And rehabilitation will always be more effective at dealing with recidivism than outright punishment, punishment that invariably treats people as animals, fucks up their ability to socialize and trust others, etc.

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      4 months ago

      Making sure people have good lives, good jobs, good education, and are financially stable is how you prevent crime from happening in the first place.

      What the hell is a person being robbed supposed to do about that in the moment?

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        How you handle a crime in the moment is a different topic than what I was getting at. I’m talking about the structural problems that create crime and how they can be fixed.

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      4 months ago

      Sorry, no authority needs to worry about how people handle their lives until they commit a crime. I don’t need an authoritative figure to make sure I’m living a good life. That’s MY responsibility, as an adult, not anyone else’s.

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        4 months ago

        Sorry, no authority needs to worry about how people handle their lives until they commit a crime.

        So if a country’s population is impoverished, lacking education, safe and sufficient food/water/housing, then it is none of the responsibility of its leaders? That is a ridiculous position.