About 9% of people that have been convicted for a crime previously commit roughly half of all recorded crime.
Letting people out of prison early, without a proper rehabilitation plan in place we could only expect more crime.
That 9% is just over 140k people in all offenders, however that includes anyone dealt with the justice system including motoring offences, so, when broken down by crime, I would guess it would be dramatically less, probably around 10k.
Pumping resources into monitoring the ‘prolific offender’ population seems to be a good way to dramatically reduce crime.
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As a society we need to start accepting that our lust for punishment (whether justifiable or not) comes with certain consequences.
One of them is that prisoners come out of prison even less equipped to deal with society than before.
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About 9% of people that have been convicted for a crime previously commit roughly half of all recorded crime.
Letting people out of prison early, without a proper rehabilitation plan in place we could only expect more crime.
That 9% is just over 140k people in all offenders, however that includes anyone dealt with the justice system including motoring offences, so, when broken down by crime, I would guess it would be dramatically less, probably around 10k.
Pumping resources into monitoring the ‘prolific offender’ population seems to be a good way to dramatically reduce crime.
As a society we need to start accepting that our lust for punishment (whether justifiable or not) comes with certain consequences.
One of them is that prisoners come out of prison even less equipped to deal with society than before.