BURGLARS WILL NOT BE JAILED
Following on from my previous post, I bring to your attention to the news that
... Hundreds of thousands of crooks could escape jail every year under the proposals by advisers to the Lord Chief Justice. Those sentenced to short, sharp shock jail terms of less than 12 months for “less serious offences” – including burglary – should be handed community penalties instead, they said. Even those who are likely to reoffend could walk free from court if it is believed they will go on to commit “non-serious offences”. And in a further blow, while courts must not be swayed by victims demanding harsher punishments for offenders, the advisers said that judges should listen if they call for leniency."
THAT is how rotten our Criminal Justice system has become - we are seeking to reduce crime by refusing to see it. Shocking.
David Vance
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David,
That's 4 posts on the trot about crime and punishment.
Could ATW benefit from some comedy writers?
A chillimondo... A chillibongo.
6:24 mins in, for 1 minute.... That's me on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HUMPaeObs&feature=related
Have fun
Percy -or could you benefit from some punishment?
It is a mistake to dilute jail sentences in this way. Burglary may seem not serious to a Chief Judge (whose neighborhod I'll wager has less burglaries than the national average), but it is a serious crime.
A long prison sentence, confinement with individuals who may harm you and isolation from your mates is undesirable for almost all people.
Most people DO NOT commit crimes because they would rather not endure that unpleasant prison experience.
Some people, however, have copped onto the fact that the Liberal legal system in the UK and the Republic of Ireland generally frown on handing out well deserved terms in confinement under the guise that "social welfare" people will hold the errant person's hand and that person will be miraculously repentant and rehabilitated.
In reality government is loath to spend monies on gaols and warders because they see no positive gain as they do in the revenue collection sector, i.e. motor tax, V.A.T., etc.
Reality tells us rehabilitation very seldom works. Pain (emotional, of course) in the form of incarceration and the threat of incarceration always has been and always will be the best deterrent of criminal behaviour.
Percy,
It was a crime vibe.
At least we're off the homo vibe.
Leniency my butt, build some more prisons.