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From: Champ on 22 Dec 2009 07:28 On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:43:41 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: >Surely any possible sentence is only a deterrent if the criminal >actually believes they're going to get caught? Ding >Even that, I suppose, requires some element of forethought. I remember >catching a scene from one of the interminable "Police" shows a few >months back. Plod were in the booking-in room, counting one suspect's >allegedly ill-gotten gains, as another suspect was led past. > >Suspect two lunged forward and grabbed the money. In a custody suite, >(literally) surrounded by coppers. Of course, he hit the ground under a >big pile of Plod within a second. > >What was he thinking? Well, pretty clearly, he wasn't. Exactly. There was a news report posted here a year or two back where some psych analysis had been done of criminals, and it found they generally weren't very good at it. But, crucially, they also lacked the ability to analyse this and fugure out that they weren't very good. -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: 'Hog on 22 Dec 2009 07:39 Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:43:41 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel > <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: >> What was he thinking? Well, pretty clearly, he wasn't. > > Exactly. There was a news report posted here a year or two back where > some psych analysis had been done of criminals, and it found they > generally weren't very good at it. But, crucially, they also lacked > the ability to analyse this and fugure out that they weren't very > good. So they will just keep on reoffending you say? Takes us back to my original proposal. -- 'Hog
From: Colin Irvine on 22 Dec 2009 07:48 On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:15:19 -0000, 'Hog squeezed out the following: >If someone had topped a close friend or family member I'm sure watching them >die in the gas chamber would assist the grieving process. I think you've lost the plot completely. -- Colin Irvine ZZR1400 BOF#33 BONY#34 COFF#06 BHaLC#5 http://www.colinandpat.co.uk
From: ogden on 22 Dec 2009 07:53 Champ wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:43:41 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel > <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: > > >Surely any possible sentence is only a deterrent if the criminal > >actually believes they're going to get caught? > > Ding > > >Even that, I suppose, requires some element of forethought. I remember > >catching a scene from one of the interminable "Police" shows a few > >months back. Plod were in the booking-in room, counting one suspect's > >allegedly ill-gotten gains, as another suspect was led past. > > > >Suspect two lunged forward and grabbed the money. In a custody suite, > >(literally) surrounded by coppers. Of course, he hit the ground under a > >big pile of Plod within a second. > > > >What was he thinking? Well, pretty clearly, he wasn't. > > Exactly. There was a news report posted here a year or two back where > some psych analysis had been done of known > criminals, and it found they > generally weren't very good at it. But, crucially, they also lacked > the ability to analyse this and fugure out that they weren't very > good. Crucial word added. -- ogden
From: Veggie Dave on 22 Dec 2009 07:54
'Hog <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote the following literary masterpiece: >Quite a lot of murder and serious crime is premeditated or not exactly >instantaneous though don't you think? Most of the people on death row in the US are guilty of murder that was not premeditated. Cold blooded murder is something you see in films, it's rather more uncommon in real life. -- Veggie Dave http://www.iq18films.co.uk "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine |