Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punish- ment because they can deter crimes effectively if criminals have suffi- cient financial resourc
I have not considered this before, in the long run incarceration of POC becomes profitable to the state as well.
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
I disagree under basis of overgeneralizations used. Crime is also determined by needs and limitations to acquire certain goods in other (legal) ways. In working with parolees, it appears recidivism is not often a consequence of making the choice that financial gain is bigger than the punishment.
A novel theoretical development in recent years is the analysis of the consequences of stereotyped reasoning or statistical discrimina- tion
Agree with the sociopsychological phenomenon of self-fulfilling prophecy. If people (usually authority or power figures) believe that minorities are less productive this may have a direct impact on the self perception an then behavior of people (minorities).
s. The analysis shows that sometimes the environment greatly softens, while at other times it magnifies, the impact of a given amount of prejudice. For example, the discrepancy in wages between equally productive blacks and whites, or women and men, would be much smaller than the degree of prejudice against blacks and women when many companies can efficiently specialize in employing mainly blacks or women
interesting to see a "solution" to the basic issue of wage and employment gap if companies specialize in employing MAINLY blacks and women.
Oursystemrecognizesthattherearesomepoorandotherwisedisadvantagedanddeservingpeoplewhoshouldreceivehelp.Butinsteadofdealingwiththeirneedsinaunifiedway,decidinghowmuchwewanttohelp,wetendtohelpthepooralittleineachofmanydifferentanduncoordinatedthingswedo.
interesting to think about the little and mostly ineffective ways policy help the "disadvantaged". The question posed at the end on the next paragraph does open up so many more questions!
Almostanycompensatorypro-gramdirectedtowardaconditionoverwhichpeoplehaveanykindofcontrol,evenremoteandprobabilisticcontrol,providesso
I disagree in the sense that it seems hard to believe that things like unemployment benefits are enough to convince people to remain unemployed. I work with parolees and most of them even at ages 60 and up want to work in anything they can get.
Buteventuallystudentsrecognizethatthepoor,becausetheyarepoor,wouldliketheprivilegeofturningtheircouponsintomoney.Wheregascouponscanonlyprovidethemgasatadiscount,transferablecouponscanbuymilkatadiscount.Ifitisunfairthatthepoorcannotdriveasmuchastherich,itisthepovertythatisunfair,notthegasolinesystem
Agree! poverty is essentially the issue at the core. This reminds me of food stamps, people sell or exchange their food stamps for cash in order to buy other things they need or want (sometimes alcohol or drugs).