tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34631969.post8300308289442925727..comments2023-07-18T10:22:59.267+01:00Comments on Radio Free Stan: Beats MeStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103651970861727267noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34631969.post-12608038214385584972009-02-12T00:23:00.000+00:002009-02-12T00:23:00.000+00:00Thanks, Anon: I'll definitely be pestering to get ...Thanks, Anon: I'll definitely be pestering to get this training sooner rather than later.Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06103651970861727267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34631969.post-35438351527465607332009-02-11T10:06:00.000+00:002009-02-11T10:06:00.000+00:00Do your HMCS Domestic Violence Training and then h...Do your HMCS Domestic Violence Training and then hopefully you will understand and be a more effective Magistrate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34631969.post-19738585568768524752009-02-10T21:56:00.000+00:002009-02-10T21:56:00.000+00:00@Stan: We ought to give the punishment which the o...@Stan: We ought to give the punishment which the offender justly deserves. If that does not deter the offence so be it. <BR/><BR/>We cannot increase the punishment because it would be unjust* to give a greater punishment than the offender deserves. We must then accept that the offence will occur.<BR/><BR/>We may give a lesser punishment if it is in the interests of wider society, for example if a lesser punishment is an effective deterrent and also the offender is not a danger to the public, they can be paroled. But it is the rights of the public which determine this not the rights of the offender.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately what happens at the moment is that *by law* serious offenders serve a lesser punishment than they deserve, motivated partly by a misplaced mercy and partly by a misplaced desire to save money.<BR/><BR/>As to your final comment. It is not the responsibility of the Courts, the Police, or anyone else to "solve" the problem of domestic violence. If a person prays the court for succour, give it justly. If for retribution, likewise. That is your role.<BR/><BR/>But save us please from people who want to solve our problems for us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34631969.post-381095205520616922009-02-10T17:05:00.000+00:002009-02-10T17:05:00.000+00:00Ben : I didn't actually say that. What I was raili...Ben : I didn't actually say that. What I was railing against was the assumption in the TV programme that Punishment is the only thing that matters when it comes to sentencing. See Daily Mail editorials for another example of this kind of thinking.<BR/><BR/>If we double the sentences and we still have a problem - do we double them again and hope for the best?<BR/><BR/>I don't believe any complex problem has a simple solution - I think it's useful to keep this mind.Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06103651970861727267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34631969.post-63320304984396775982009-02-10T16:52:00.000+00:002009-02-10T16:52:00.000+00:00You assume that the main purpose of sentences is t...You assume that the main purpose of sentences is to stop crime happening. Of course it is not, if it were there are two simple methods (which I leave as an exercise).<BR/><BR/>People want to see bad actions punished, and dangerous people confined. Preventing *all* bad actions is not possible and any serious attempt to do it must necessarily require wholesale surveillance of the entire population, not just on the street but in our homes too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com