• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    26 days ago

    Swedish prisons have a reoffending rate of 25%. So yes - many do.

    That is incomplete data. We have no information how the reoffending rate would be without prison, there are other factors influencing the reoffending rate (in the US for example, it is really hard to get employed after serving prison time, something that is much easier in Sweden), you don’t get out of prison unscathed, and is that the reoffending rate of adults, kids, both…?

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      26 days ago

      That is incomplete data

      Ah, the classic when you don’t like the data.

      We have no information how the reoffending rate would be without prison

      It would certainly be higher, because the only thing that stops many people from doing crime IS prison, and if you get away with it once, you’ll do it again. It’s basic human behavior. You don’t need data for that, just as you don’t need data for “is the stove hot when I turn it on for 2 minutes”.

      you don’t get out of prison unscathed

      Neither does the person you raped, beat up or outright murdered.

      and is that the reoffending rate of adults, kids, both…?

      That is the adult reoffending rate because there currently is no jail time for teens from what I could find. But I’d say that the reoffending rate would be around the same for teenagers. There’s no reason why adults should reoffend less or more than teenagers after prison.