Re:Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study
by bobthepanda on Sunday February 07, 2021 @04:13AM
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That’s because reducing crime is really a secondary benefit of prison as practiced in America.
The primary reason for its current form is to appease the “fire and brimstone” folks who think that crime must be a result of inherent moral failings that can never be stamped out, so it’s simply what those folks deserve. It’s the flip side of the so-called Protestant work ethic. Go to literally any news article regarding a crime, and there are still plenty of eligible voters who want even more tough-on-crime, as if that has ever solved anything.
For reasons of a systemic nature, people seem to not call for this so passionately for white collar crime or the type of criminals who tend to perform it. There are very rare exceptions like Bernie Madoff but that is the exception and not the rule.
The primary reason for its current form is to appease the “fire and brimstone” folks who think that crime must be a result of inherent moral failings that can never be stamped out, so it’s simply what those folks deserve. It’s the flip side of the so-called Protestant work ethic. Go to literally any news article regarding a crime, and there are still plenty of eligible voters who want even more tough-on-crime, as if that has ever solved anything.
For reasons of a systemic nature, people seem to not call for this so passionately for white collar crime or the type of criminals who tend to perform it. There are very rare exceptions like Bernie Madoff but that is the exception and not the rule.