Crime: Why does anyone even bother?

[elizabethbinary]

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You can look into the studies referenced if you want to make your own conclusions. I found it to be a rather emcompassing article, with many valid references and studies.

 

[chickaddict]

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You can look into the studies referenced if you want to make your own conclusions. I found it to be a rather emcompassing article, with many valid references and studies.

If it turns out to be true that diet effects the crime rate.


We should be using the information and monetary funds to improve the dietary needs of the elementary school children in an attempt to improve the future.
Not to Improve the meals of ADULTS THAT HAVE ALREADY RUINED THEIRS.

 

[chickened]

There is a prison in Arizona run by a county sheriff that seems to have had an effect on lowering the crime rate, I think it is called tent city or something and they have also lowered the repeated offender statistics as well.

 

[Royd]

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It's the diet and the pink underwear...They say pink is a very calming color.

 

[chickened]

I think that the personal testimonies of the current residents has helped,they say they don't like it there it feels like... well... a prison!

 

[gritsar]

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Gee, imagine that. Punishment actually feels like punishment.

 

[arabianequine]

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Gee, imagine that. Punishment actually feels like punishment.

lol I was gonna say that exact thing

 

[KristyHall]

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You can look into the studies referenced if you want to make your own conclusions. I found it to be a rather emcompassing article, with many valid references and studies.

If it turns out to be true that diet effects the crime rate.


We should be using the information and monetary funds to improve the dietary needs of the elementary school children in an attempt to improve the future.
Not to Improve the meals of ADULTS THAT HAVE ALREADY RUINED THEIRS.

To say "ruined", means that they are beyond rehabilitation? the point of prisons, at least originally, is to rehabilitate the people into productive citizens, and for some i works, for some it doesn't. " Many of these people who made these mistakes are ruined only by people unwilling to give them the skills, chances and tools to remake themselves. Just look a Judge Greg Maths. He went from gang banger to lawyer to judge.
Shouldn't we as a society make every effort to encourage those who have made a mistake pay their dues and re-enter society as productive citizens? Who here has not made a terrible mistake or a bad move, maybe in our youth, that if it had gone wrong would have landed us in the same stigmatized part of society?

 

[arabianequine]

IMO some things are not forgettable or forgivable and should not be let out once caught. I thought prisons were for punishment.

 

[KristyHall]

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Let me clarify. Some crimes are not forgivable and some criminals can not be reformed. But I am railing against the over simplified broad brush approach. That drives me bonkers. Stereotypes are only a hindrance and retards any sort of productivity.And if we let our emotions get the best of us we are liable to do things that make us as bad as the criminal we profess to dislike.
The american prison has a complex and interesting story. Long story short (from what I read, I could be wrong) it was originally meant as a punishment but the Quakers improved upon it and helped the prison system begin reformation programs. Now the prison system is a complex system of both private and governmental interests that seem to be working against itself in many ways while striving t improve in others. I"m not an expert I'm just parroting what little I have read on it so feel free to correct me.