Nowadays, it is commonly regarded by many that poverty is the major cause of crime. Well of course. I suppose it starts that way for the hungry and becaomes that way for the covetous and avaricious.
This mindset is so entrenched that it colours even the way crime is addressed and not just in Southern Africa. I met a magistrate today in Britain, who tells me regularly encounters criminals who deliberately commit crime just before Christmas, so they can spend Christmas inside."no way!" I protested, "surely they would rather be at home with family?" Nope! Apparently home is less festive than prison, there may be a huge lack at home. What does this say about prison then?
Prison in Africa is not an attractive prospect,and would not be the location of choice for most criminals I would guess, but in South Africa, there is little else to fear from capital crimes-child abuse, rape and murder as the death penalty is no more. Of course "reformists", a rather reinvented concept now, would have us believe that capital punishment was never a deterrent.The same poor fools who believe that criminalising prostitution also causes increase!
What stats are they reading???
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