Haha, wow. Off by a factor of over two. Actually a bit less than ten years. For voluntary manslaughter it is 2.5 years. For involuntary, 1.5.
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It's certainly cheaper.
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Our current legal system actually makes many punishments very expensive. One of Mark Kleiman's goals in "When Brute Force Fails" was to push for more consistent use of cheap punishments.
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@PeterMoskos argued In Defense of Flogging against incarceration, but corporal punishment generally lacks the incapacitative effect of prison -
What's bizarre is that the West prefers lengthy prison terms not for their efficacy but because its culture deems a few whacks with a bamboo cane to be barbaric beyond belief, even if the prisoner would vastly prefer a day's beating over wasting his youth in a cell.
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I do think it's unfortunate we rely less on public punishments, because that could take advantage of salience to get people to overestimate the risk of being caught and punished.
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