Ngunnawal burglars disturbed

Ben_Dover said :

Jethro said :

Locking him up for a few years may serve the mobs thirst for vengeance, but its not going to do anything constructive.

It’s statements like that which show all which is wrong in society today.

How so. Look at Norway’s system of rehabilitation and there far far lower rates of recidivism.

The problem with Norway’s system is that it doesn’t satisfy calls for vengeance.

Is it wrong that I read this bit of the sentencing report:

He made contact with an employee whom he found “awesome” and that may provide him with future opportunities in horticulture where he sees his future.

And think that “opportunities in horticulture” is a pretty thinly veiled euphemism for running a nice hydroponic setup in the ceiling cavity?

Jethro said :

Locking him up for a few years may serve the mobs thirst for vengeance, but its not going to do anything constructive.

It’s statements like that which show all which is wrong in society today.

Jethro said :

Locking him up for a few years may serve the mobs thirst for vengeance, but its not going to do anything constructive.

Locking him up for a few a years is probably the most constructive thing we can do. We already know he has zero respect for the law or others, so protecting society from him is the best thing we can do.

I’d bet the offenders wouldn’t get suspended sentances if they broke into a magistrate’s house.

I’m sorry. How you could read through that and not have a bit of empathy for the kid is beyond me.

I’m not saying he should go unpunished but, like many young offenders, his path was pretty much chosen for him at birth.

I’m not sure how locking him up for 2 or 3 years is going to serve anybody. He’ll just come out meaner and angrier than he already is. As it stands, this kid will likely be in and out of the prison system for the rest of his life.

Locking him up for a few years may serve the mobs thirst for vengeance, but its not going to do anything constructive.

The problem that you have is not in fact the Magistrates, but the Legislative Assembly. The Magistrates can only impose penalties that are allowed by the Government, ours is a bleeding heart, human rights seeking hippy fest of a government.

It feels at times they are more protecting the rights of the offenders, softly softly, they will change there ways, blah blah blah.

But as I have said before, retribution and rehabilitation very rarely work together in a criminal justice system, while the public want eye for an eye, it is not conducive to lowering the recidivism rate, but I have no idea what it, all I know is that I don’t think our system works.

People work hard for what they have and Judges just let thieves have a rails run at it all.

Special G said :

And the results are in

http://www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/sentence/view/1131/title/r-v-bm

Reading through pages of decisions it seems you have to be a really dedicated offender to get any time at all. I wonder what Magistrates are on to have such a rosy view of the world?

Come now Captain, surely you’re not insinuating the accused used his indigenous background to influence the magistrate are you??