Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "Trevor Jacob is Going to JAIL!" video.
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"if the interests of justice would be better served without incarceration? "
As you are a psychiatrist you may be speaking from the point of view of the criminal, as a person.
Let me make one thing clear: justice is not about saving, correcting, re-habilitating or mending the criminal. It is not even about punishing the person, eye for an eye, or tit for tat. Not even getting even or "making him pay"
Justice is done to ensure the OTHER 99.9% of the population understand clearly what are the CONSEQUENCES of criminal activity. So they behave accordingly to that risk.
There is NO WAY to police the entire world. Or to catch 100% criminals. Or to get 100% conviction rates on the ones you catch. Or to make them all serve their sentences in full. Or to get them all "re-habilitated". All this is "fluff", useless, pointless and not the true goal of justice.
The only way to have a peaceful decent law abbiding society is SELF-RESTRAIN and SELF GOVERNANCE. That is the purpose justice serves, making sure everybody knows what is the risk.
And on this we agree, incarceration is NOT ENOUGH to achieve the purpose of justice.
Unless crime is punished harshly, publicly and has long term consequences, there is no point in calling it justice.
This guy WILL walk away free in less than two years. And he will DO IT AGAIN, because this is his nature. The problem is the hundreds of copycats that will not be deterred, because they say "at worst, two years with food, shelter and healthcare"
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