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%PUNISH PRISON CAPITAL DEATH SENTENCE PREVENT CRIME 940625

     Often  extreme  forms of punishment are justified  as
preventive  measures because they are presumed to  inhibit
criminal activities.   The  dilemma is that the crimes are
reflexive in nature on the part of victims,  perpetrators,
and society---and so the  question of prevention cannot be
studied  scientifically  with objectivity,  even if  there
were a desire to do so, which there rarely is.

     People  do  not want to study  the  effectiveness  of
extreme  forms  of  punishment, because the  imposition of
extreme  forms of punishment is not motivated by open  and
honest technical considerations;  but rather by  reflexive
collusive considerations relating to addictive attempts to
be  in control,  get revenge,  express anger,  etc.    The
notion  that  there  are beneficial  effects  of  imposing
extreme  forms  of  punishment is a false  myth  which  is
maintained to conceal the real motives which are buried in
collusive games of mutual self deception.

     Extreme  forms of punishment virtually always  entail
legalism, judgmentalism, condemnation, excommunication and
alienation;    all of which tend to  create contexts which
are conducive to additional crime.

     Separating criminals from potential victims to reduce
the  probability  of  additional  victimization (while  an
effort  is  made to rehabilitate the criminals in  keeping
with  an integrative paradigm) is a reasonable response to
criminal activity---but is not in keeping with the pseudo-
theory of extreme forms of punishment.

     Dealing  with  criminals is a reflexive  process  and
cannot  be  done  wisely  when pretending that  it  is  an
objective process of manipulation and control.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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