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Glob posted...

I agree with this, but those that are sentenced to 5 years or less need to be adequately helped to stand any chance of rehabilitation. I dont think that happens anywhere near enough.

Theres definitely a lot of factors at play in terms of why people commit crimes, but I dont believe that people who get off on hurting others are as rare as that. I will concede, as somebody who grew up in a household with major links to organised crime, my perspective may be skewed.

From my college classes most crime aka stealing and similar things are crime of opportunity. Basically said person has little impulse control and sees a situation they belive they can and will get away with it. Everybody runs out of luck eventually though.

Similarly most break ins of homes are done by people who have been in your house before they know where things are and feel they can get in and out quick enough. With those that ain't the case there is broken window theory which falls back to the crime of opportunity. If someplace looks easy to break into it probably it.