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Viewing it as a disease is fine, but then crime should be viewed as a communicable disease, both in the sense that seeing someone commit (and get away with) a crime increases the likelihood that you'll do it, and also because the disease does not only harm the host but also those around them. Normally we quarantine people with communicable diseases when possible, which ends up looking a lot like prison…


What a good point! Thanks for the food for thought.




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