>>... or you can say that one reason some people turn to crime is because the punishment is too lenient. It's easier to be in jail for a few years than being on your own trying to make a lawful living. They're the little train that couldn't or wouldn't...:)
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>You don't create a better society by hardening the punishment. You don't correct your son with harder and harder punishment when he did something wrong. It will not make him a better person. Simulary, you won't make a criminal a better person when you punish him hard and long. If a criminal has nothing to lose you have a person that will have no reason to follow the law.

Since you just seem to know what not to do and don't seem to have any answer to what to do, I'll tell you what I think must be done with harden criminals... lock 'm up forever doing hard time (harder the better) or just get rid of them. Either way I don't care, but I prefer the latter.

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>Punishments and revenge are not the way to create a better society. This is exactly the point here.

No punishment for doing crime, what a great thing.... if you're a criminal.