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Glah
Jun 21, 2005

botany posted:

Deterrence is a lovely basis for imprisonment, not just because it doesn't work

Deterrence works with certain crimes better than others. For example deterrence has more effect on economical crimes where persons doing them usually calculate risk/reward incentives more rationally than homicides where guy who gets blackout drunk ends up stabbing his drinking partner. Espionage and treason usually are closer to former type of crime than latter.

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