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> Please don't - this is typical 'tough on crime' trick: promise long sentences, so easy - longer sentence-less crime, right? Wrong. Sentenses are useless if no-one ever gets caught. Look at countries with the toughest sentenses in the world, and you will find they have loads of crime

Perhaps the causality goes the other way here? Perhaps suffering under loads of crime makes people vote for tough sentences?



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