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Nic Name · 06-04-2002, 11:02 PM

I'm a strong believer in sentencing for punishment and deterence.

I don't believe in capital punishment. I think that every offender should have the opportunity to reform, and that in most cases, reformed criminals should be able to earn release after serving an appropriate term of imprisonment as punishment.

But it doesn't seem just to me that criminals should be able to argue that they reformed themselves while on the lamb ... and not be liable to the full sentence appropriate for punishment.

Syc, in this case, let's say he had been arrested soon after the crime. Whatever the sentence, do you think he should be entitled to parole from prison within 5 years on the basis of rehabilitation and being a model prisoner?

If not, are you not supporting a notion of arguing that a subsequent life as a model citizen mitigates the crime? And, if so, should it mitigate any more that a model life prior to a criminal act?

06-04-2002, 11:02 PM	#4
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	I'm a strong believer in sentencing for punishment and deterence. I don't believe in capital punishment. I think that every offender should have the opportunity to reform, and that in most cases, reformed criminals should be able to earn release after serving an appropriate term of imprisonment as punishment. But it doesn't seem just to me that criminals should be able to argue that they reformed themselves while on the lamb ... and not be liable to the full sentence appropriate for punishment. Syc, in this case, let's say he had been arrested soon after the crime. Whatever the sentence, do you think he should be entitled to parole from prison within 5 years on the basis of rehabilitation and being a model prisoner? If not, are you not supporting a notion of arguing that a subsequent life as a model citizen mitigates the crime? And, if so, should it mitigate any more that a model life prior to a criminal act? Last edited by Nic Name; 06-04-2002 at 11:04 PM.