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To: Kirk © who wrote (17923)	2/5/2024 5:07:27 PM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Recommended By Sr K Respond to of 26813

That is part of my point. People should have enough at stake to not become career criminals. Clearly the current system is not working. The US has progressively handed out harsher sentences for 40 years and got worse, not better. So to keep on this path expect something better is illogical. There was a social experiment in Israel. A group of daycares fined parents for picking their kids up late, and another group used a soft touch empathy (e.g. making the parents connect with the workers that they had kept up late). Two interesting results: (1) The group that fined the parents got worse, not better. (2) After the fining group got rid of the fines their results still remained elevated (because the prohibition against late pick up was already broken). Here's an example from my personal life. When my oldest was 20 months old, like all tots she was a challenge to feed. One day when she was ready to eat her food, I brought her a toy. She really hadn't asked for the toy but was mildly happen to see it. When she stopped eating her food, I threatened to take away her toy and that made her go back to eating. There is no reason why you can't have some of the kids teach others how to do graffiti or play drums or manage and organize activities and so on and so forth. They can earn some money and privileges from that and be recognized as member in good standing. Getting arrested would ruin their social network. I am not an expert in youth development, but I've seen various reports from different countries on how they manage such problems. In general a drop of honey works much better than a pound of vinegar.