Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime

Re:Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero ... by arcticbull on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:52PM (#17708853)

There's yet a further subdivision to be made too, as there's getting a murder off the street (justice), punishing the murderer (vengeance/retribution) and stopping more murders (prevention).

After the Rwandan genocide and even in reaction to the residential school system in Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions were set up to focus on the justice and prevention elements of the triangle and explicitly pass on retribution. [1]

The US system focuses, IMO, almost solely on vengeance to the detriment of prevention. The US has one of the highest recidivism rates in the entirely world at 75%, so if your goal is to stop people from doing it again, the US system is an abject failure. If you want to enslave and torture, it works great. Norway focuses on justice and prevention, and as a result, has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, at 20% [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is...

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Re:Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:56PM (#17708897)

> There's yet a further subdivision to be made too, as there's getting a murder off the street (justice),

The standard term for that is “incapacitation”; “justice” is more ambiguous.

> stopping more murders (prevention).

“prevention” is usually broken down into “incapacitation” and “deterrence”.

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Re:Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero ... by arcticbull on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:36PM (#17709301)

Thanks! I do like those terms more.

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