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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
we do already have some element of that, you will get a steadily increasing sentence if you carry on offending, the guy in question got 4 years for his last assault which was likely little different than his first in violence, the US loves inflexible rules, 3 strikes and you're out etc which leads to situations where a guy who did some dumb stuff as a teenager gets locked up for life for stealing a pizza or something stupid like that in his late 20's when he's maybe turned his life around.
None of this prevents crime I should add, you can lock everyone up for long sentances and there will still be as much crime
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The application of the 3 strikes rules varies from state to state and most require the crimes to be violent, so unless you're committing aggravated robbery in the process of stealing a pizza it wouldn't qualify. That said, there's plenty of evidence to show 3 strike laws are not particularly ineffective and are not universally applied.
Your last sentence is objectively wrong as there's also evidence to show it provides
some varying level of deterrence, most notably for people on the second strike.
There is also significant deterrence provided by Florida's 10-20-Life law.