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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Replying to @chesaboudin
It’s not less expensive when you take into account that if people are not threatened by prison they will commit more crime which you’ll have to pay restitutions for.
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You need a citation to prove that if there isn't a penalty for the crime someone will be more apt to commit it???
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Replying to @M1zasterP1ece @redswimmer99 and
Yep. Absolutely need a citation. The deterrence theory, like many of the theories underpinning the criminal legal system, is unsubstantiated by actual data—just junk science understandings of human behavior. And the consequences are steep.
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Replying to @SisoftheYam @redswimmer99 and
Didn't know citations were needed for common sense these days. No wonder it's such a shit show
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Replying to @M1zasterP1ece @SisoftheYam and
Here’s a citation - agree that it’s common sense but providing one anyway:https://apnews.com/b7503ec703ce439b9b16768d0e7249db/Study:-Reduced-criminal-penalties-contributed-to-more-thefts …
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Replying to @LovesBitcoin @M1zasterP1ece and
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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