We prosecute property crimes every day. For better or worse. And it's far more humane and less expensive to pay restitution than it is to send people to our failed, massively expensive and criminogenic prisons.https://twitter.com/bay_snark/status/1274737205299122178 …
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Twitter is a hard place to have this kind of convo, but that citation is about the deterrent effects of longer prison sentences associated w/prop 47 (slightly diff q than the proposal above). I’d have to look at the study the article cited but...
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seems inconsistent with the national findings that certainty of punishment creates more deterrence than severity of punishment. In any case, not so “common sense” that it’s beyond the need for data. The research on this is actually complicated.
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