Last Topic: 5:18:43pm, 12/05/2024
Last Post: 9:22:06pm, 11/18/2022
I feel like phrasing this with a negative makes this kind of hard to parse. Is this saying that people refrain from crime because they fear the punishment? I think is largely not true - ie fear of punishment is not the main deterrent of crime. I don't think fear of punishment makes a difference in crime levels, and thinking so usually implies that harsher punishment of crime will prevent further crime which is basically never the case.