[bsder]

No. For both children and adults, sentencing strictness only deters a SINGLE category of crime--white collar.

Most other forms of crime, especially violent, are almost completely insensitive to the harshness of any possible punishment sentence.

If a brain is sufficiently broken that it no longer has the limiter against harming another human being, prison sentences won't do anything to fix that.

[warumdarum]

No true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador

Turns out it works.

[bsder]

Flagged as AI Slop Bot.

Wikipedia article makes no obvious mention of correlation between sentencing and deterrence. Linked article, in fact, demonstrates that alternative programs provided almost all the improvement.