Jail sentences were never detracting anyone from crimes. Crimes are either planned so the criminal does not think they will be caught or done out of emotion so the criminal does not think about possible punishment
If she’s in jail she can’t waterboard her kid and put it in the freezer again… Do you motherfuckers even think about what you’re saying before you spout off with these tired arguments?
Until October 6, when she gets out of jail.
Unfortunately the foster system is also fucked.
Not really, there’s still a baby freezing psychopath on the loose in that case. Who knows what she’ll do to the next person she blames all her problems on.
The severity of the punishment is not an effective deterrent. This has been known since a UN study from the 1980s, yet people still cling to the belief that a long prison sentence or the death penalty is a good deterrent.
So long as the punishment is significant enough that it cannot be dismissed (eg a small fine is meaningless to someone wealthy), then the only effective deterrent is the certainty of being caught.
I’ve done a little digging, I think it might be this book: Roger Hood, The Death Penalty: A World-wide Perspective.
It was mentioned at the end of this Amnesty International fact sheet (pdf) that it was first published in 1988 then updated, I think there was also a fifth edition in 2015 so maybe there’s an even another new one now. I’m not sure if this is exactly the same source I saw previously, but that could be because of the various revisions.
