Quote Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill View Post
Wow, that’s amazingly naive.
How so? I believe we have the highest prison population in Europe. Its hugely expensive and most studies of punitive justice systems, unless embedded in a ruthless totalitarian system, show it simply doesn't work. Whereas Glasgow's initiative seemed to have quite a positive impact.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.t...g-young-people

Happy for rationale argument against this of course but "amazingly naive" seems quite lazy. Why do you think that?