Emergent Chaos: Releasing Criminals

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Releasing Criminals

(Posted by adam)

My friend Sameer takes issue with my hoping for experimentation by criminals, on two grounds:

First, he believes I'm encouraging violence. This wasn't my intent. I assume that there are all sorts of ways to non-violently behave badly, from calling a guard snookums to having a tattoo needle in your cell. However, I don't know.

His second argument is that my criteria for release are orthogonal to being a menace to society: That this fellow could be a clever psychopath. This is true. I made the (again unstated) assumption that, like most people in jail, this fellow is in jail for a non-violent drug crime.

If he's in jail for violence, or needs to commit violence to get out, that would temper my previous position.

Posted by adam on December 18, 2004 at 11:45 AM in Liberty . You can: see trackbacks (1) or search Technorati.

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