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Where's the deterrent for shіthead scumbags in society?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,108 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    There is none. That’s why we need to bring back the hangman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Is that the only reason you can think of for asking people for their logic for sentencing?

    On yeah. I'm big in the burglary scene alright ��

    The logic from the two people who suggested an appropriate sentence seems to be just spunk out a number of years off the top of their head as an appropriate sentence. I think we can do better than that.

    You mentioned recidivism. I'm pointing out that the people who commit violent burglaries are normally habitual recidivists which will have an impact on sentencing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Hal3000


    Light sentencing clearly hasn't worked in Ireland. Hence these guys going around with 100 plus convictions. Victim is never taken into account in sentencing. Things will only change when a judge or a politican experiences what it's like to have your life ruined by a crime.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,211 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    No. completely incorrect.

    The sentence should be a deterrent for comitting the crime in the first instance.

    Ah OK. I get you. Not a deterrent for the one who committed the crime. A deterrent for everyone else.

    How do you conclude what's an appropriate sentence then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,211 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    The purpose is to remove the threat to other people, ten years also offers the wrongdoer more time to think on their sins

    Why 10 years or any other number of years? Is it a matter of picking a number out of the sky?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,069 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Have Russian style prisons. Suspend human rights once you've a conviction.

    Chain the fcukers up and make them clean up public areas.

    Make prison the last place they'd want to wind up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,211 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Hal3000 wrote: »
    Light sentencing clearly hasn't worked in Ireland. Hence these guys going around with 100 plus convictions. Victim is never taken into account in sentencing. Things will only change when a judge or a politican experiences what it's like to have your life ruined by a crime.

    If you want to take the victim into consideration you won't like the research. The research suggests that some kind of reconciliation is effective. Sentencing the criminal actually does very little for the victims. They don't get much from punishing the criminal. They actually get more from a discussion with the criminal and sincere apology if it's possible.

    I'm sure you won't care about that even though it's the thing that is shown to help the victim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,211 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Panthro wrote: »
    Have Russian style prisons. Suspend human rights once you've a conviction.

    Chain the fcukers up and make them clean up public areas.

    Make prison the last place they'd want to wind up.

    Lol. Cos Russia isa famously crime free country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,069 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Lol. Cos Russia isa famously crime free country.

    You can write about it on your blog.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    Why 10 years or any other number of years? Is it a matter of picking a number out of the sky?

    I was reading the last few pages and just wondering what you think is an appropriate sentence yourself.

    In my opinion the whole system needs an over haul and maybe like the injuries board there should be a set sentence for each crime.

    Zero tollerence and no suspension for good behaviour, do the crime you do the time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Lux23 wrote: »

    What sort of mother would not make any contact with them? The bottle of the barrel scum out there really know no bounds.


  • Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,711 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Ah OK. I get you. Not a deterrent for the one who committed the crime.

    how do you come up with that... of course is a deterrent for the one who commits the crime... criminals do not have exclusivity for different types of crimes.

    are you actually trying to argue that a sentence of 10 years is not more of a deterrent than a sentence of say 5 years? if so, why are you saying this?
    How do you conclude what's an appropriate sentence then?

    beyond my pay grade.

    but as an external observer i can absolutely criticize what i see as lenient sentences for dangerous offenders.... or meager sentences for repeat offenders.

    you should read this:
    https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/sentencing-guidelines-lottery-3867865-Mar2018/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Why 10 years or any other number of years? Is it a matter of picking a number out of the sky?

    I know you are being sneery but how and ever, Ten years is a long time as the majority of perpetrators are in the eighteen to thirty five bracket, loosing ten years during that period of your life is a big loss to reclaim


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    If you want to take the victim into consideration you won't like the research. The research suggests that some kind of reconciliation is effective. Sentencing the criminal actually does very little for the victims. They don't get much from punishing the criminal. They actually get more from a discussion with the criminal and sincere apology if it's possible.

    I'm sure you won't care about that even though it's the thing that is shown to help the victim.

    The kind of people who do " research" in this area are invariably social studies leftists of some kind who primarily see victimhood in the perpetrator


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,211 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Hedgelayer wrote: »
    I was reading the last few pages and just wondering what you think is an appropriate sentence yourself.

    In my opinion the whole system needs an over haul and maybe like the injuries board there should be a set sentence for each crime.

    Zero tollerence and no suspension for good behaviour, do the crime you do the time.

    Ive no idea how to figure out the appropriate sentence and neither do any of the others posting here. Im Waiting to see how long it takes them to figure that out.

    I'd agree the system needs an overhaul. But we would need to figure out the purpose of the new system. Is it to punish crime? Deter crime? Reduce recidivism? Make amends to the victims?

    I suspect the main motivation for most of the posters here is simply to punish. That does almost nothing for the victim and barely affects likelihood of recidivism. But for some reason it seems to be the only thing they're Interested in discussing. That's fascinating to me.

    I'd be much more interested in finding out what factors lead to crime and addressing those factors to prevent crime in the first place. Mad idea, isn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,211 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    The kind of people who do " research" in this area are invariably social studies leftists of some kind who primarily see victimhood in the perpetrator

    Like I said, I'm sure you won't like the research.

    So if you're going to dismiss the research without so much as considering it (very convenient) then how are you going to determine what actually works?


  • Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If punishment worked how come the Saudia Arabas system of beheading dissidents, criminals, and terrorists has not worked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,211 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    I know you are being sneery but how and ever, Ten years is a long time as the majority of perpetrators are in the eighteen to thirty five bracket, loosing ten years during that period of your life is a big loss to reclaim

    I'm not being sneery. I'm asking why10 years and you're struggling to come up with a reason.

    5 years is a long time. So is 20 years a long time. Why is 10 years the magic number?

    You picked 10 years out if the sky and now you're struggling to defend it. Why bother defending it if you font have a reason to?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    mickdw wrote: »
    Welfare is regarded a minimum living allowance so no financial penalty for them once they are on the dole.
    I believe fines/ compensation should be taken directly from welfare payments when scum misbehave.


    Seems the obvious solution.

    But, lets see how it works in reality.

    Jo is on the dole. Wants more money anywahs for booze drugs gambling birds etc etc etc.

    So he smahses the window for a gps.

    Gets caught. Now hes minus 1000 euro over the next 6 month of dole payments as punishment.

    So does he say, oh no, now ill go hungry and ill stay in all weekend and watch tv?

    Does he hell. He goes out and tries to rob 4 GPSs this time. Make up the shortfall this way.

    If hes caught maybe he gets jail. Costs tax payers a lot more. Or maybe he doesnr get jail and the situation repeats itself all over again.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Hal3000


    mariaalice wrote: »
    If punishment worked how come the Saudia Arabas system of beheading dissidents, criminals, and terrorists has not worked.

    Again, this is just a crazy comparison. No one here is abdicating for barbaric punishments. Have you seen the sentencing in this country lately ? Endless amounts of suspended sentences for pretty horrific crimes. There are countless examples of judges being overly lenitent on absolute thugs in this country. Bottom line is our system is broke and needs total overhaul


  • Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,711 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    I suspect the main motivation for most of the posters here is simply to punish. That does almost nothing for the victim and barely affects likelihood of recidivism. But for some reason it seems to be the only thing they're Interested in discussing. ?

    ive read back through the last 4 pages and i really dont see anyone saying that at all...

    you keep asking what should we do...

    did you read the article that i linked to?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭El_Bee


    Lux23 wrote: »


    Literally clown world, is there an AGM for Judges or any kind of event where they're in the same place together at any point? Asking for a friend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭El_Bee


    I'm not being sneery. I'm asking why10 years and you're struggling to come up with a reason.

    5 years is a long time. So is 20 years a long time. Why is 10 years the magic number?

    You picked 10 years out if the sky and now you're struggling to defend it. Why bother defending it if you font have a reason to?


    Congratulations, once again you've derailed the thread with nitpicking and splitting hairs. I'm baffled as to why you are like this, but I'll give you an answer before I block you, it's about taking the worst elements of society OUT of society, giving society a break from them, 10 years is a nice break for the victims of crime, but you obviously begrudge them even that, and that is why we are where we are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,069 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    ive read back through the last 4 pages and i really dont see anyone saying that at all...

    you keep asking what should we do...

    did you read the article that i linked to?

    It's all dáta collection for a blog she's writing on.
    Ignorant men etc etc etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Jane98


    It will only get worse. I'm a primary teacher at the senior end and each year less and less basic discipline is being accepted by parents. Basic manners are decreasing and an entitled, spoilt attitude is on the rise. Soon we will only be allowed to reprimand children in Morse code. And that is not good for society when these children reach adulthood.

    I totally agree. As a secondary school teacher, I have become more and more concerned in recent years with what seems to be an increase in the number of students I meet who aspire to a life on the dole and nothing more. Many of these students make the job of a teacher a difficult one as they have no interest in learning, turn up to class with no pens, copies etc and expect them to be given to them by the school for free because everything else they get is given to their families for free. It is truly worrying. Many of the parents do not engage with the school too.

    I also think it's time we modernised our social welfare system so that people have to give something back in return for benefits. There is a huge disincentive for many in our society to take responsibility for themselves and their families. A fit and healthy 18 year old should not be handed money to sit on their arse. We are pushing the pension age for people who have worked all their lives up and up but a fit and healthy 18 year old can get free money.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Hal3000


    Panthro wrote: »
    It's all dáta collection for a blog she's writing on.
    Ignorant men etc etc etc.

    That won't be much of a read. Man is ignorant because he seeks harsher punishments for violent crimes. Christ Almighty perhaps we really are doomed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    There used to be many more of those murders back in the day. 586 road deaths in 1975, 165 in 2015. Nowadays as well there is a lot less anti social behaviour compared to 20 or 30 years ago. I remember gangs of youngsters congregating and causing trouble. I don't see that any more, probably because they are all inside on their smart phones. Football hooliganism was a big thing back then as well. The crowds are mostly a lot more civilised now.

    Today's generation of children play outside for only half the time their parents did, so that seems to be translating into less trouble on the streets when they get a bit older as well.

    I'd suggest a trip to Balbriggan, Rush, Skerries, Lusk, Malahide etc at the weekends.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    If you want to take the victim into consideration you won't like the research. The research suggests that some kind of reconciliation is effective. Sentencing the criminal actually does very little for the victims. They don't get much from punishing the criminal. They actually get more from a discussion with the criminal and sincere apology if it's possible.

    I'm sure you won't care about that even though it's the thing that is shown to help the victim.

    Surely if we just hug the criminals and they'll feel the warmth of human compassion and change their ways?? :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    mariaalice wrote: »
    If punishment worked how come the Saudia Arabas system of beheading dissidents, criminals, and terrorists has not worked.

    How many beheaded "dissidents, criminals, and terrorists" have caused trouble once they have been dealt with??


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