There are violent sociopaths, and then there's most of the prison population. Most of them are just people who made a mistake and didn't have any guard rails in their life to keep them on the straight and narrow before they became adults. Most of them would be very possible to rehabilitate but that's just not how the US looks at crime. Our approach, no matter what we call it, is "lock them up and throw away the key".
One could say (with the reduction in violent crime since the 70's) that this works. If that's true and it isn't the result of abortion being legalized (not my theory, don't hate me) then we could keep doing it. Could we as a society do better? I think the answer is yes. I think there's a moral imperative to.
So the question is, how might we reduce violent crime and increase the acceptance of social norms within high risk groups?
> this works. If that's true and it isn't the result of abortion being legalized
Both these theories are based entirely on correlation with no good casual mechanism to explain them. The first is particularly impugned - in fact it's reasonable to say disproven outright - by the very high recidivism rate. The second is outlandish on its face.
At least the lead exposure theory passes the straight face test.
One could say (with the reduction in violent crime since the 70's) that this works. If that's true and it isn't the result of abortion being legalized (not my theory, don't hate me) then we could keep doing it. Could we as a society do better? I think the answer is yes. I think there's a moral imperative to.
So the question is, how might we reduce violent crime and increase the acceptance of social norms within high risk groups?