Musings on boot camps and criminality

[morbid_curious]

It's election season, and thus also the season to get tough on crime™, with our Prime Minister floating the idea of year-long "boot camps" for Serious Youth Offenders. This in spite of research here and overseas that suggests that this kind of "get tough" approach isn't effective and often backfires

Comments

[ashbet]

Something like this would likely be a hell of a lot more effective:

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/524502/

(Not saying that everyone in the system is a psychopath, merely that this form of treatment seems to positively affect behavior, even of previously-violent patients or inmates.)

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[thebluerose]

Yes, exactly this. Its about team and trust and forming a bond and learning different ways to exist.

[smallmercies]

I can't work it out: are they genuinely out of ideas or do they honestly have no respect for the voting public?

[morbid_curious]

Think of it as an inclusive or.