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Originally Posted by Skootenbeeten
What do you expect from Canada? Drunks, pedofiles and murderers are welcome, light sentences all around.
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...and yet we have a fairly low crime rate. I hear these arguments all the time and I understand why there's anger every time someone is sentenced as it's human nature to want justice and to see people pay for crimes.
The law can't be based on what the public wants, because if you polled the general public privately on what the sentencing should be, I wouldn't be surprised if you'd come out with results of;
-mental illness leads to violent assault = who cares about the mental illness, and the details were gruesome, 50 years, no parole
-theft over $5000 = those people are scum and they know what they're doing, 25 years, daily beatings
-murder = death, eye for an eye, if he turns out innocent years later who cares, we needed our blood back then, it felt good and justified, justice is good
The sentences are based on punishment and rehabilitation, not just punishment. If you focus too much on punishment (and I get it, it feels better for victims, family, general public etc) you become the United States. I think our punishment/rehabilitation is decent in Canada, of course it could be better.