Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Crime and punishment
This article here in the local "news"paper is interesting from a number of viewpoints.
Firstly: Does prison work? "... police revealed how his arrest led to a 90 per cent drop in burglaries in parts of York."
So to all you wishy washy liberals who say it doesn't clearly it does.
Secondly the offender themselves has asked to be locked up, to help him get off drugs. The judge has obliged.
Despite this, I'm not confident, the judge has given him 15 months plus 100 days from an unserved sentence. We hear he committed his last offences whilst on parole from an 18 month term, and prior offences whilst on parole from a 3 year term. So his new term isn't something he hasn't had before, so presumably won't be enough time for him to get off the drugs, so from that perspective he'll probably be out again and offending before too long.
Notice also the history of offences committed whilst on parole. Being on parole means being "on trust" parole coming from the Latin for "word" i.e. their word of honour. Clearly he has now, twice betrayed that trust, but I'll bet he'll still be considered for and probably granted parole again. Whereas we should be saying no look, no parole, you've twice broken your word, how can we trust you a third time?
Firstly: Does prison work? "... police revealed how his arrest led to a 90 per cent drop in burglaries in parts of York."
So to all you wishy washy liberals who say it doesn't clearly it does.
Secondly the offender themselves has asked to be locked up, to help him get off drugs. The judge has obliged.
Despite this, I'm not confident, the judge has given him 15 months plus 100 days from an unserved sentence. We hear he committed his last offences whilst on parole from an 18 month term, and prior offences whilst on parole from a 3 year term. So his new term isn't something he hasn't had before, so presumably won't be enough time for him to get off the drugs, so from that perspective he'll probably be out again and offending before too long.
Notice also the history of offences committed whilst on parole. Being on parole means being "on trust" parole coming from the Latin for "word" i.e. their word of honour. Clearly he has now, twice betrayed that trust, but I'll bet he'll still be considered for and probably granted parole again. Whereas we should be saying no look, no parole, you've twice broken your word, how can we trust you a third time?
Tags: justice, crime, punishment
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