• @deadbeef79000
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    39 months ago

    Me too.

    Society has a limit to how much of “crime X” they’ll tolerate.

    Some should be exactly one: murder, rape, toture, etc. I’d argue that provable attempts at those count as one, so the threshold is actually less than one.

    I feel like pretty much everything else can be “civil” consequences:

    • financial crimes: forbidden from holding a position with fiduciary responsibility, repayment, punitive damages.
    • theft: restitution, punitive damages, restraining orders

    What I’m really unsure about is, arguably, progenitors to violence:

    • drink driving? Lose license, curfew? What happens when they do it again and hurt someone?
    • harassment? Restraining orders? What happens when it escalates?

    Just to throw a few into discussion.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      29 months ago

      It’s a tough call in deciding the seriousness of an offence when deciding the consequences, especially when it is a repeat. The costs of incarceration are huge, yet it seems to be needed to hopefully discourage the more serious crimes.