Can Feminists Get Any More Desperate?

[Aeolus451]

o_O.Q said:

Aeolus451 said:

 

Surely, harsher punishments won't prevent all crimes from happening but it would stop some before they happened because of the "would be" criminals that sit on the fence called risk & possible punishment versus reward. 

We've advanced leaps and bounds in technology that helps us catch people easily but we've become unrealistically lenient on violent criminals. Prisons that hold violent criminals should be hell on earth at the very least. 

 

is there any real study that indicates this to be the case though?

i've heard for a long time now that crime rates have been dropping significantly over the years and this has been in conjunction with punishments becoming less harsh 

i have no real data on this but its something to consider

Well, my comparisons are between now and times when no studies were done. I tried to find any study that's reliable on this and haven't found one. Also, how would you know if it actually prevented a crime versus a person just doing it anyway? Its not like a criminal would just be honest about it. There's other ways to look at it. 

If we lowered the punishments for breaking traffic laws, would traffic violations increase or decrease?  If punishments for breaking laws weren't really detering people, why bother with the law/rule or the punishment for breaking 'em? Why have prisons or police?  

The whole point of punishments for breaking laws is to deter the masses or anyone that's thinking about it but it doesn't stop all crime. 

It's basically impossible to even do a trial run of what I want in the country that I live in. Shit would have to hit the fan for them to consider it.