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I think the view of imprisonment varies a lot as well, where our culture and background greatly affect our opinions. I personally like the system we have in northern Europe where the focus is on rehabilitation of criminals, not the imprisonment in itself. We need to understand that crime is a combination of a persons choice to commit crime and the environment that the person lives in. The death penalty doesn't reduce the crime rate in a society, but I would guess it actually pushes it towards more violence.