a lot of people otherwise correctly concerned with criminal justice reform pretty excited about throwing aunt becky into federal prison for cheating her daughter into a shitty party schoolhttps://twitter.com/AP/status/1296882464875577346 …
the answer to “i think we’re being too hard on nonviolent criminals” is to be less hard on nonviolent criminals, not throw everyone who cheats on an entrance exam into federal prison lol
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Depends on the type of crime. Think n order effects. Elites taking places away from the deserving could definitely lead to suboptimal and undeserved life outcomes for the cheated, including increase of and exposure to stresses and violence. Privilege and power 101
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The American legal system isn't based on "privilege and power" (thank God) it is based on "equality under the law" ...
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One might think we're being too hard on some crimes (for humanitarian reasons, or because harsher penalties have ceased to buy much deterrence) and not hard enough on others (because our sense of what people "deserve" falls short of optimal deterrence).
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I don't have a strong opinion on this matter particularly, but I do suspect there are some cases where we're under-punishing from a utilitarian standpoint, while still over-punishing most things.
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