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Re:Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games by zmgsabst on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:40AM (#36630792)
If you want to treat crime through a disease model, then you should quarantine the infected and prevent transmissions, eg by them victimizing more people.

Somehow, that part of medicine never makes it into these “alternatives” — which makes claims of “systems thinking” or “crime as disease” sound like shallow pretenses for performative virtue rather than legitimate considered policy.

Re:Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games by afavour on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:48AM (#36631720)
At no point did I say I wanted to treat crime through a disease model so your "shallow pretense" dismissal feels out of place.

All I'm saying is that it's pretty obvious jailing criminals is incredibly expensive and not particularly effective at reducing future crime.