Kicking a dog to death

He's averaging a conviction every 6 weeks or less since he turned 18. Not sure there's much that can be done and he'll likely be in jail for most of his life and rightly so.

Even if he is let out, you can pretty much guarantee he'll be back before long.

Why? The job of the barrister is to assist the court in making the correct decision. It is important that whatever scumbag is up in court is given representation so that there can be absolutely no claims that he was given afforded other than completely fair process. Yes, he likely doesn't deserve that, but he has to go through that process before you can absolutely and definitely say so.

It is not the role of the barrister to be a judge and jury.

5 years would be fair he will kill someone in the future not facing any consequence for his actions 6 months is a joke

Using prison as a punishment or deterrent doesn't work. These people don't make a calculation when they are committing these crimes. Prison should be used when a person has proved incapable of living in free society without harming others at which point they should be imprisoned until we are convinced that this risk is very low.

We need to try stop crime from happening; I'd agree with that, hence my point that prison should be a last resort. But when it is used it should be because the offender is a risk to civil society and therefore an indeterminate prison sentence is given until we are convinced they are not a risk to society.

I agree that we can't stamp out crime completely, but we can address some of the causes of crime. My main point was that prison should be a last resort and when it is used it should be very very serious sentence; my view it should be indeterminate until a parole board feels you are capable of living in society without harming people.

the only problem with this is, the institutions and systems required to protect all from these more minor criminal acts, dont actually exist, hence our default to prisons, we re not willing to create these, as you can see from this comment.....

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