Unpopular Opinion: it's neither rehabilitation or punishment. Most criminality can't be "fixed" they are who they are often and we don't know how to induce that kind of change. The point is incapacitating them. If they're locked up, they can't continue to hurt people.
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Rehabilition is mostly lip service.
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It’s largely there to incarcerate psychopaths which account for about 30% of the prison population.
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Why not both...why does it always have to be an either/or dichotomy?
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Because the original tweet was about the *primary goal* of a criminal justice system...and there can only be one *primary* goal, even if something else like deterrence is a close second.
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I mean, if we're being "facts before feelings here", Bernie is right.
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There's a "should" in Bernie's statement, so I can only read it as normative or ethical, not factual. I *agree* with it, but that's a different issue.
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Why would a politician understand human behavior?
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I've spent about 10 hours in jail I never ever want to go back Absolutely a deterrent
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The US has one of the highest rates of recidivism in the world. Is deterrence really as effective as we would like it to think it is?
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