Submitted on Thursday 4th August 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Prisons don't work. Adopt punitive financial compensation
Prison does nothing to deter many criminals nor does it successfully rehabilitate many. In fact prison often turns first offendors into hardened criminals. Punishment does not reduce crime, fear of punishment does.
Capital Punishment is a bad idea because it cannot be reversed if the convicted person is later found innocent. So a new system is needed. The government should consider adopting a Punitive Financial Compensation system. Here offendors pay money to the victims.
Punitive Financial Compensation has the following advantages over punishment by imprisonment:
It acts as a deterrent for greater number of people (serious crime offendors have to work for their victim for the rest of their life).
It compensates the victim of crime for the damage caused.
It pays for the cost of crime prevention.
It leaves the criminal in charge of his own life.
It does not place the criminal into an environment which will turn him into a habitual criminal, as prison often does.
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