Despite Harper’s claims, harsh sentences do not reduce the incidence of crime; among many reasons, punishment focuses miscreants’ attention on their own pain, making them less likely to consider the pain they’ve caused others.
Restorative justice is a better approach, but Harper prefers to practise cheap politics by playing on people’s fears of crime, even though crime in general is decreasing.
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