Gun Policy Research

[Dill]

(06-23-2017, 02:40 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Incarcerated for committing crimes. What's your alternative? Give all law breakers a pass, regardless of what they have done, so long as they pledge to get a job instead?

I don't think that's "white culture". I think that's "adult culture", where you're responsible for your own life choices and actions. That line of thinking is how we've gotten to the point that people try to label drug addiction as a "disease"... as if it's cancer or something.

Medical professionals label drug addiction as a disease, in part because they think that gives them a better chance of controlling and curing addiction--much better than incarceration. Why shouldn't that count as "adult culture"--especially since they strive to base their policy on experimental method and data?

One alternative might be to end the war on drugs, which has massively raised the incarceration rate in the US without producing any appreciable reduction in drug use. And it has arguably done more to expand and maintain a culture of criminal recidivism. Get rid of all 3 strikes laws. Don't sentence people to life for stealing a bicycle.

Shorter sentences for non-violent crime might also help, along with "coddling" criminals by offering them vocational training and liberal education while in prison.