RE: Reducing Crime

[Greg Peisert <gpeisert@jamesgregory.com>]

Interesting Discussion;

  It seems that in Europe, the crime rate is far lower than in the U.S. (I 
don't have the stats handy). Same with Japan. What do they do that we don't 
do, and what would be the consequences and costs of doing it here? Anybody 
have some insight on that?

--Greg



On Sunday, February 21, 1999 3:12 PM, Margaret Tarbet 
[SMTP:tarbet@swaa.com] wrote:
> Nick wrote:
>
> >I gave mixed emotions regarding the registration (and, subsequently, the
> >public "outing") of convicted sex offenders...
>
> I do too, and i'm sure for the same reasons you do -- the same
> reasons illuminated in the article.
>
> Recidivism is high, but it's not 100%.  I could feel more
> comfortable seeing recidivists outed, because most sex offenders who
> go straight afterward, do so after the first time.    The offender
> who offends a second time is probably not healthy enough to keep
> from doing it a third, fouth, and fifth time too.
>
> But the Virginia plan to put common felony and even misdemeanor
> records online -- wow!  That really gives me the creeps.   What
> price rehabilitation?   What does it take before someone has 'paid
> his debt to society' in full?  Is any error to be a life sentence?