UK employers are so unfair

[wendigo100]

SB, we don't see much of you here any more. Is it because (pardon the spelling):

[xoggoth]

I think you have to be more practical dim.

As far as the habitual criminal is concerned I quite agree with you. For those who come before the courts time and time again and will not take any chances offered to them, I would like to see increasingly stiff sentences. If that means people serving life for shoplifting, so be it, it is their choice. The first duty of the courts is to protect the public. Build more prisons to accomodate them if necessary.

But you cannot simply ignore the fact that many are not recidivists. Many given a caution do not re-offend, many are so frightened by their first custodial sentence they do not re-offend. Some will not re-offend if they can be weened off hard drugs. Some simply grow out of their youthful tendency to crime. To not give those any chance of building a normal life at all is a plain waste.

A successful justice system has to have a big stick but it also needs a few carrots.

Yes, I would be very wary of employing an ex-com myself. Maybe this is something that (shock horror - lefty socialist alert!) needs govenment action. Maybe in the form of government insurance for anyone taking an old lag on.

[threaded]

Xoggoth: Considering the rate that the UK gov is creating new laws, also considering that even though the crime rate is rising, the crime rate is still less that the rate of creation of new crimes. So all in all the UK is become a more peaceful place.

Conversely surely if you remove laws, i.e. strike them from the statute books, then there will be less crime, less demand on the legal system, and a reduced need for prisions?

[zeitghost]

<embezzlers should not be pension fund managers >

Are you serious Xogg?

I thought that was a prerequisite for the job...