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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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Fine with that. Harsh consequences are an effective deterrent, which is their main purpose
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In what alternate universe?
Study after study has shown harsher sentences
don't deter crime:
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Originally Posted by https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/business-law/do-harsher-punishments-deter-crime
“Deterrence is very largely an article of faith,” says UNSW Law Emeritus Professor David Brown. “I call it sentencing’s dirty secret because it’s just assumed that there is deterrence … but what the research shows is that the system has little to no deterrent effect.”
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It's very, very simple: let's say you're thinking of killing someone. Do you stop and think "well, in some other state murder is a ten year sentence, but in my state it's twenty years, so I better not murder this guy?" No, you either think "I'm not going to get caught, so it doesn't matter", or you're acting in a fit of rage (and not thinking at all).
Harsher penalties are good for exactly one thing: making victims feel better ... and not by much. If your mom gets murdered, do you really think you're going to feel much better when the guy who murdered your family member gets 20 years instead of 10?