Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.
Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.
Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
Criminals don't care what the law is.