(01-07-2025, 05:41 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I think we need forensic mental hospitals that are secure facilities for the long term treatment of really broken people. And alongside, I think we need rehabilitation institutions for re educating people who need help to become happy productive citizens.
It works in other countries, why not here? Enough of punishment. More education. More treatment. More therapy. More identification of the causes, more elimination of those, rather than the futures of the people those factors create.
That's exactly what we should be doing - looking at other countries & see what works & then set it up here. Adapted slightly if need be. And yes, there will always be some people so damaged that they must be kept away from society for their & our good.
Norway now has Europe's lowest recividist rate; the emphasis is on rehabilitation & restorative justice, considered radical by some but nonetheless it works well.
Prior to their reforms, the rate of recidivism was 60-70%. Its now 20%.
https://www.firststepalliance.org/post/n...ism%20rate.
Incidentally I'm presently reading Trent Dalton's By sea & stars, the first fleet, about convicts sent to Australia.
I hadn't realised such cruelty was involved in who was sent but it included a nine year old boy & a woman in her 80's who managed to suicide once in Australia.
Not the best way to cope with crime...
https://goodreadingmagazine.com.au/title...sea-stars/
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)