Thread: Hunter convicted

Originally Posted by Cordite

@Sidney

You maintain our justice system is not broken? Who, then, incarcerates all those people???

By your reasonable definition, if most incarcerations are inappropriate outcomes, the system is "broken".

I digress, wonder how a justice system would work with no custodial sentencing available. Hopefully more restitution / actual victim compensation, with the odd execution (or exile to Kapiti Island).

Just because there are flaws, doesn't mean its broken.. incarceration is a tool, but clearly it has been almost the only tool to mitigate the danger to the public and to penalise.

Rehabilitation is a joke when you group criminals together to educate each other how to be better criminals. So too is putting people who may not become habitual criminals or who may have committed some unintended act into a place where they can become something that they may never have otherwise.

That is stupidity and creates future harm for the rest of us.

Now none of this is simple stuff and logistically really difficult.... but I absolutely agree with you that the "making right" part of offending has been forgotten. To try and fix your cock ups is part of being a responsible person... why has society forgotten that....?

Of course sometimes victims can't face that, and it seems harsh to perpetuate their vulnerability in some sort of truth and reconciliation process, so that is not easy either...

I sometimes think that we have forgotten that conflict is a natural part of life, we have practiced conflict avoidance in preference and we are not well equipped to resolve life difficulties because we have not been trained to do so..

Facing up to errors is a part of it, but so to is facing up when we have been wronged... its all part of being responsible...