I have made quite a few blogs about my support for abolishing prisons and of reforming violent offenders in more compassionate environments. I have explained both the fiscal benefits and the social benefits, namely that preventing crime and rehabilitating offenders helps protect potential victims. However, after having discussed prison reform with people, and after receiving… Read More
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State Focuses on Pot Users Instead of Violent Criminals
According to FBI statistics, the number of arrests for marijuana exceeds the number of arrests for violent crimes. That makes me very angry! I detest the fact that the United States wastes hundreds of billions of dollars per year waging a war on drugs so that it can overwork the courts and overcrowd the jails… Read More
Doctor Explains Teen Violence Prevention Plan
I just read a great article by Dawn Turner Trice about Dr. Carl Bell’s teen violence prevention principles. Bell works as a respected psychiatrist, violence-prevention expert and president of Chicago’s Community Mental Health Council. He also wrote the book, The Sanity of Survival: Reflections on Community Mental Health and Wellness. Perhaps referencing Bell, the author… Read More
Violent Criminal Rehabilitation
For the most part, most incarceration systems do not rehabilitate offenders. After convicting violent criminals and victimizers, we throw them in a horrible prison where they suffer while associating with other criminals. We either leave them there for life, or let them out after a certain amount of time. When we let them out, they… Read More
What Qualifies as Child Abuse?
Many questions have come up about what qualifies as child abuse. For example, some people have advocated making it illegal for parents to smoke cigarettes in a car with a child, at least with the windows down. Namely because of the very harmful health effects of secondhand smoke, some people see it as child abuse… Read More
Private Police to Stop and Catch Violent Criminals
I generally dislike, mistrust, and resent police in general more than the average person. When someone talks of cops, I think of the street cops going around bullying kids and attacking non-violent marijuana smokers. But I support the police–or all people for that matter–who attempt to stop violent criminals, such as rapists and murders. Of… Read More
Sex Slavery
After finishing the book, Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre-Feminist, Anarchist, Genius, I wrote a blog post: The Continued Subjugation of Women in Society If you liked that blog post, you can check out the essay from the book that inspired it: “Sex Slavery” by Voltairine de Cleyre In the essay, which I… Read More
Parents Often Reluctant to Report Sex Abuse of Children
I just read a frightening and saddening article in which experts explain that parents have a reluctance to report the sexual abuse of children. The article started with a story about multiple families who had known that a karate instructor sexually abused children more than 10 years before one of his many future victims finally… Read More
Psychological Treatment for Dangerously Wayward Kids
It costs a lot less to prevent violent crime and victimization in the first place than to try to rectify the problem afterwards. Once people have committed an act of violence or victimization, we already have a victim and a victimizer–two major problems. The people in society have many ways of preventing violence and victimization.… Read More
Removing Kids from Abusive Homes
I just read an interesting letter in which John Hemming urged the UK government to stop punishing women who are victims of domestic violence by taking their children away. A recent UK government report revealed that “51.1% of women who have had their children removed had it done so in part because they were victims… Read More
Does Aggressive Militarism Encourage Personal Violence?
I just read an interesting post on Joejolly’s blog. In the post, he speculates that using Violence to Solve Problems may be contagious. Basically, he speculates that the Bush Administration’s aggressive military endeavors–namely the occupation of Iraq–set an example of using offensive violence for the American people. As a result, American citizens may tend to… Read More
Education Prevents Violent Crime and Victimization
Many states spend more on prisons than they do on education. But prisons do not seem to do that much to prevent violent crime and victimization. For one, criminals only go to prison after having committed the crime. Additionally, the prisons do not reform the criminals, but just release most of them after a while.… Read More