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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Personally I think the justice system should have three considerations in the following order
1) Public Safety - Criminal doesn't even get a chance at freedom til its proven by the criminal that he's in no way a threat to public safety.
2) Victim Rights - Central to any concept of Justice
3) Rehabilitation - It can't abrogate the above two, but there has to be a concerted effort for rehabilitation by the criminal and the system.
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I agree with all of those points and that order. Though I don't believe they always have to be assessed individually, often they go hand in hand. Obviously 1 and 3 do very much so.
As I was saying earlier, just curious about what everyone thought about proper sentences since everyone seemed to think 9 years was laughable.
I guess a larger issue was that people consider our system to be such a joke. Sure it's not perfect, but I don't think it's a joke either. I wanted to hear more interesting ideas or opinions than just, 'lock em up forever'. I mean stuff like this only gets posted cause of the 'rubberneck factor', and that's a shame. So people can all wring their hands and say 'oh that's terrible', and 'criminals get off way too easy'. That's not hard to do, and more disturbingly it's voyeuristic and only adds to the problem.
Surely there can be a larger purpose to these types of threads then just the typical knee-jerk reactions. That's all I was trying to bring.