Good piece but I don't agree on tougher sentences as the only way to end it, especially not for teenagers - we have let young men and boys down terribly. A number of cases recently where teenagers have been perpetrators. The violence is anomie. We are a sick, degenerate society. I observe some migrant men attacking women and ask myself well why on earth would any migrant coming here respect a society and its people when the society had no respect for itself. Anyway Scum Fein and the rest have no interest in solving the problem. They want a fearful population.
Is it that the overlaps between the govt law and media in a small country are sizable enough that noone wishes to point fingers? Keep it vague so no judge, politician or legislative body has to carry the can. The leader of the party usually susceptible to law n order rhetoric is still being 'investigated' himself of course. They aren't polling well these days but they obv don't see anything to be gained by that tactic. Perhaps they see violence and harassments against women as something that cuts across class and social lines sufficiently that means scapegoating certain social groups is too tricky.
The point isn't that tougher sentencing is desirable, more why it isn't deemed to be so. I have no idea how credible this is, but I recall from last year a Twitter thread from a British journalist Ally Fogg, who claimed that UK studies showed those guys who committed the lion's share of sexual offences all had some or all common traits of a loveless upbringing, physical or sexual abuse, poverty, bad families etc. The really effective way of lowering crime wd therefore be to make society less unequal. How feasible is that in this country where plenty of the middle class work in areas such as finance, that needs the filthy rich to keep the show on the road?
Good piece but I don't agree on tougher sentences as the only way to end it, especially not for teenagers - we have let young men and boys down terribly. A number of cases recently where teenagers have been perpetrators. The violence is anomie. We are a sick, degenerate society. I observe some migrant men attacking women and ask myself well why on earth would any migrant coming here respect a society and its people when the society had no respect for itself. Anyway Scum Fein and the rest have no interest in solving the problem. They want a fearful population.
Is it that the overlaps between the govt law and media in a small country are sizable enough that noone wishes to point fingers? Keep it vague so no judge, politician or legislative body has to carry the can. The leader of the party usually susceptible to law n order rhetoric is still being 'investigated' himself of course. They aren't polling well these days but they obv don't see anything to be gained by that tactic. Perhaps they see violence and harassments against women as something that cuts across class and social lines sufficiently that means scapegoating certain social groups is too tricky.
The point isn't that tougher sentencing is desirable, more why it isn't deemed to be so. I have no idea how credible this is, but I recall from last year a Twitter thread from a British journalist Ally Fogg, who claimed that UK studies showed those guys who committed the lion's share of sexual offences all had some or all common traits of a loveless upbringing, physical or sexual abuse, poverty, bad families etc. The really effective way of lowering crime wd therefore be to make society less unequal. How feasible is that in this country where plenty of the middle class work in areas such as finance, that needs the filthy rich to keep the show on the road?