Hey /his/ I have a Law question How do you understand criminal punishments at the margin.If the baseline penalty for breaking someone's legs is 10 years, and you reduce that penalty to 8 years do you get more knecappings? If you increase the penalty to 12 years do you get fewer knecappings? How do you know?
>>18361747>If the baseline penalty for breaking someone's legs is 10 years, and you reduce that penalty to 8 years do you get more kneecappings?For the people that are deterred by the punishment of being locked up, maybe.>If you increase the penalty to 12 years do you get fewer knecappings?For the people that are deterred by the punishment of being locked up, maybe.But there's other factors and other people, so this is the sort of thing retired practitioners write books about.
