The judges seem to think that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to “help” the criminal rather then helping non-criminals by removing the dangerous from society.
“The judges seem to think that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to “help” the criminal rather then helping non-criminals by removing the dangerous from society.”
Things are totally skewed. Paul Ryan’s remark that politicians are there to help foreigners blew any remaining trust for this government away.
Judges are grasping at straws hoping to find a way to alleviate the prison overcrowding which is a catastrophe on a number of levels.
Rehabilitation verses confinement...Hmm.
Rehabilitation is based on the theory that the criminal element is a person not criminally inclined for life, and that it just takes the right process or processes to straighten out the mind of the convicted person.
Rehabilitation has been a long standing position of the justice system, unless your crime is so horrendous, so sociopathic it overrides their liberal mental illness...
The possible rehabilitation of criminals which justifies their liberalism overrides the weight of protecting the general public...
...and people wonder why the hard core progressives think nothing of putting AGW deniers into prison is actually something said out loud......
The judges seem to think that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to “help” the criminal rather then helping non-criminals by removing the dangerous from society.
I look at it as being much like ‘stockholm syndrome’. Psychologists, ‘social workers’ and many lawyers believe that their #1 function is to ‘help’ those they come in contact with. When you deal with ‘Crazy people’, ‘dindonuffins’, drug addicts and those who just plain don’t want to work or blame everything that went wrong in their lives on the ‘man’, the ‘System’ or the ________, they lose perspective from their lack of contact with the real people, the ones who don’t need help.
And when they lose that contact with ‘normals’ they become a hostage to their emotions and come to believe or even think like those they do come in contact with the most.
And that leads to things like this killing. When the proper ‘normal’ response would have been, “lock the bum up and throw away the key” instead of “I need to help this poor man and ease his troubles”.
“The judges seem to think that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to “help” the criminal rather then helping non-criminals by removing the dangerous from society.”
Best comment on this thread! And there needs to be a more positive mechanism for relieving these idiots of their robes when they are shown to be incompetent.