Ostroeuropa wrote:Chestaan wrote:
The right to full equality before the law, regardless of gender would help. The justice system should be forced to ignore gender in custody cases, in the case of rape etc. This should prevent women getting lower sentences than men for the same crimes, the fact that women are favoured in child custody cases etc.
What about this instead?Early release policy based on demographics: You take the data from all the women in jail for a crime, the data from all the men in jail for that crime, smush them together, and when it turns out that men get say, 40% more prison time for that crime, you parole the men when they've completed 60% of their sentence (Dodgy math probably.). Notably, such a policy is absolutely silent on whether this problem is the result of discrimination against men (It is.) Or women, it merely addresses the issue. It's crude and such, but it's better than nothing. You can repeat it for black people and such, or any demographic if there is evidence of discrimination in the system. This also means that if people want criminals to serve more time, they have to actually mean that instead of using it as a cover to target a demographic. This also handily does away with individual judges having too much sway over a persons fate, and gives way to the wisdom of crowds effect. Notably, it does not impact a sentence when a judge decides to be lenient, only if they decide to be harsh. Further, it only mitigates the harshness proportionally.
So if a woman gets 1 year and a man gets 20 years, but the average for men is 10 years, he will serve 2 years. That judge may have been 1 year too harsh, or it may be the individual circumstances of the crime and such, but it still eliminates a chunk of the sentence to achieve the 10% amount. This policy would not mean that such a man would serve 1 year. It only effects proportionally, and with both demographics counted. It allows some leeway for more harsh sentencing based on individual circumstances of the crime, while eliminating the possibility for broad, systemic discrimination, since if the "Individual circumstances" excuse is used too often, it will skew the data and prompt sentence reductions. (Discrimination may still occur in individual cases and not be rectified entirely by the system.)
This to me, seems to be a sufficient system to address justice system discrimination with regards to sentencing. If this were implemented, THEN we could have a discussion on whether or not sentences should be as low as womens, or as high as mens, or in between. This system merely ensures equality.
This policy would be disastrous and perhaps ironically(since you are a mens activist) it would hurt men the most. The vast majority of assaults and murders are actually men killing and maiming other men.
If anything it should be the other way around. Letting dangerous criminals out on the streets early is one of the worst policies I've ever heard of.
It also ignores the fact that women and men tend to commit different types of crimes with different severity and men are often able to get reduced sentences by cooperating and admitting to a lessor charge.
