Criminals are routinely given fluffy, ineffective, ‘rehabilitative’ sentences.
Most remain undeterred from re-offending. Unremorseful and not at all frightened of the system the cycle continues, the convict honing his craft during terms of imprisonment, tragically wasting his life and hurting society.
This self perpetuating scenario is aggravated by the bewildering labrynth of precedents, regulations and directions spewed down from busy legislators (bad enough when it was merely parliament but now we have landslide slurries of further obligations imposed by the European Union!)The deliberate complexity of the law and sentencing practice means the public, although scandalised by sentencing policy, can’t really challenge the establishment because only governments and lawyers understand the system. The Judges cannot be blamed, they must remain obedient, bound by the straight jacket of sentencing guide lines .
The United Kingdom must remember the natural justice of Common law:‘ Don’t impinge upon other people or their property’.
Perhaps in the circumstance that a criminal persists in offending, that person should be stripped of the laws’ protection and the court obliged to declare the itinerant individual an ‘out law’, that is outside the law, thus wielding a powerful ‘uber’ deterrent, and preserving expensive prison places for the helplessly deranged.
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