Kasz216 on 21 May 2009
| largedarryl said: I'm of the belief that threat of punishment is not a legitimate measure to prevent crime from occurring. Throughout history, this has always been the case, and nothing we are going to do now is going to change that. The things that seemingly prevent crime from happening is education and class standing. Desperate people will resort to any means to get what they need, and no amount of punishment threat will change that. |
I'm not even sure it's class standing.
I mean the UK for example has a higher crime rate per capita vs the US despite the UK having a lower Gini Coefficent.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_percap-crime-total-crimes-per-capita
