Re:Who’s Watching Your Porch?
by apta on Sunday January 26, 2020 @03:45PM
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Studies like this always seem to be confined to Western societies (and particularly the US). Other societies seem to be doing just fine with harsh punishments like the death penalty. There are other factors at play here, but having harsh punishments that are actually applied is one factor in the system. In other countries, serial rapists would be executed for instance. I'm not sure that's the case in the US.
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Re:Who’s Watching Your Porch?
by Consultant32452 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @06:05PM
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Not that I'm recommending we go this route, but Singapore will literally beat you with a big stick, likely permanently handicapping you, for offenses as small as chewing gum. They have remarkably low crime.
Re:Who’s Watching Your Porch?
by chickenfries on Monday January 27, 2020 @08:59AM
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Chewing gum is a fine. There’s a lot to be said about caning in Singapore but you’re not going to be caned for chewing gum.
Among developed countries, the US has one of the harshest "justice" systems.
It still has death sentences and the dubious record of an incarceration rate higher than any other country.
It's about how correctly applied those punishments are. Just because it has the death penalty and high incarceration rates doesn't mean that they're being used correctly. For instance, does a serial rapist or serial child molester get the death penalty? In other countries he would. Why do people who were convicted with 100% certainty get put on death row for very long periods of time? People like public shooters and so on. It's a flawed application of the system in the US.