tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post368914735238914295..comments2024-03-28T09:08:50.733+00:00Comments on Law and Lawyers: So what would you do? .....ObiterJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544226917595022902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-71834048479389204562010-08-09T09:39:45.155+01:002010-08-09T09:39:45.155+01:00The link referred to by Onlooker JP:
see House of...The link referred to by Onlooker JP:<br /><br />see <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmjust/uc378-i/uc37801.htm" rel="nofollow">House of Commons Justice Committee - Oral Evidence - 21st July 2010</a>ObiterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04544226917595022902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-60923503143749561612010-08-08T20:53:58.249+01:002010-08-08T20:53:58.249+01:00I'm entirely comfortable with the protecting t...I'm entirely comfortable with the protecting the public by locking up prolific offenders for a really long time. If they are genuinely prolific then deterrence and rehabilitation have failed. What's left?Ed (not Bystander)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-47168401970407079482010-08-08T19:43:36.457+01:002010-08-08T19:43:36.457+01:00It certainly seems that he won't come out reha...It certainly seems that he won't come out rehabilitated. At least the public has been given a well deserved eighteen month holiday from his activities.Conornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-33345437213885965372010-08-08T17:23:53.105+01:002010-08-08T17:23:53.105+01:00Research so far has not found much evidence that d...Research so far has not found much evidence that deterrence works - the one thing that seems to have effect is a genuine fear of being caught. I do think that the Justice Minister has shown some real awareness of the problems of sentencing in<br />http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmjust/uc378-i/uc37801.htm questions 26 -46. No doubt I'll be disappointed but he does seem to be in tune with an earlier Cons. Home Sec. who said "Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse" which led to the CJA 1991. This had its faults but there was a clear "desert" theory which at the lower court level seemed clear and promising.onlookerJPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-46614165808818318042010-08-08T16:33:04.475+01:002010-08-08T16:33:04.475+01:00From the BBC story "They (prolific offenders)...From the BBC story "They (prolific offenders) will be committing offences to survive more often than not."<br />In that case, I can well imagine that enabling someone to survive without resorting to crime, may be effective. Wernham stole property worth over £1 million including expensive cars. He should have been locked up much earlier.Conornoreply@blogger.com