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Old Aug 13, 2007, 01:14 pm   #14 (permalink) (top)
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Agreed, but none of those things is possible to enact
in a third world village with no prison, there the
only way to stop someone killing is to make sure
they are no longer physically capable of doing it, which
is best exemplified y taking their lives.
And, of course, sommunity programs aren't much comfort to the
family killed in the night by a murderer already in
existance, though I'm sure they'll be just chipper that their
neighborhood is being cleaned up.
I don't personally think prisons are much of a solution, either.

Much crime comes from evils of private property such as poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and alienation. Other than that, such people can be restrained, put in mental hospitals, or maybe on deserted islands.

You seem to assume that third world areas cannot at all cope with crime, but some simple principles could be applied quite generally.

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