crime prevention

Well, I'm pretty sure that all of my blogs are going to be inspired by others' blogs now but oh well. This one was from a discussion of To Catch a Predator. Now I know, the guys they catch on this show are a threat to society, and it is almost certain that they will prey on young children. But I still can't help but wonder, is it right that we convict them.

Part one of a research paper.

Whoever knew that the rules of baseball could be applied to real life?  Much less crime.  But that's the case now for many states, where after you're third offense you are given a mandatory sentence, no matter what your crime was or who you are.  Is this a good thing?  Yeah.