Just look at the epidemic of U.S. female teachers who sexually abuse their students and get slapped on the wrist compared to the harsher sentences of the men who do abuse their female students
Anyhow, I truly believe the industrial prison complex is too successful for the U.S. to change any aspect it. If anything, we will reignite the drug war and start using social media to lock up more men and the occasional woman. This feeds the narrative that our society does not care about men and that the government is always looking to take care of women at the expense of men and our taxes. As a young man it is hard to see it any other way and has radicalized me towards the manopshere, redpill and mgotw online communities and philosophy.
Then again, I wonder if this the outcome that social engineers are pushing our society towards to? I feel no desire to love, cherish or protect any women in my life after seeing how they can get away with things that I cannot as a man and how society caters to their every whim. / End rant.
There's way to much bias based on irrelevant circumstances in the US justice system. Black men in particular need a bit more mercy, rich white people need more accountability, women need to be taken more seriously in both directions.
First an foremost, though, the US prison-industrial complex needs to end. Profiting from imprisonment creates perverse incentives. The goal of the prison system needs to be rehabilitation, not corporate profit at the expensive of the people.
One thesis you could take is that the US, with the largest incarcerated population in the history of the world, could stand to be a little bit less harsh in their sentencing.
http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-popula...
Also, as I was previously trying to state, I feel that we should address this issue by generally changing/lowering sentences. If we can be compassionate towards woman convicts, why not men?
There seems to exist three major influences that "dictate" the outcome of a case. Gender and race of the accused, and the blood sugar level on the judge and jury. If you build a prediction model where only those variables are known then you would likely get quite scary accurate results.
[1]If you disagree with the notion that courts favor women, and you flag me instead of the article, you're doing it wrong. I'm pointing out flaws in submission's logic, not arguing whether or not it is correct.
Also, this is specifically talking about sentencing which therefor relates to criminal law. You want to get into a myriad of issues relating to Civil law and it's flaws, that's a whole other can of worms.
The nightmarish campus rape policies aren't created in a vacuum:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-un...
They're a result of a generation of activist law school graduates. Once you give an ideology carte blanche, people will abuse it.
You could move sentencing only to a separate body from the trial judge and jury, which acts based on a record only of the offenses found by the trial court and the criminal history of the offender, without other information, including the race and gender of anyone involved.
It also assumes the situation won't be recursive. Lighten sentences for men.. then suddenly women get even lighter sentences. Repeat until there is no sentence at all?
The article basically boils down to, "It's not fair to men. We should Do Something![TM]" It does not strike me as a well thought out appeal to the reader.
It...does not support his ideas.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/the-div...
And I say to any creature who may be listening, there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.
Jean-Luc Picard
Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
That it’s already flagged off the front page is a credit to no one.
A selection of some of the embedded links from the piece:
https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/amendment-proce...
https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/criminal-hist...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3793850/
https://academic.oup.com/aler/article/17/1/127/212179
https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...
As a review of the federal sentencing guidelines status quo, sure. As a source of proposed remedies, no.
I didn't go into the article looking for an argument that there were problems with that system and the application of it. I had prior knowledge there, and fleshing it out further wasn't my only reason to read this.
I went into the article looking for the proposed remedies (and a ounce of hope that they wouldn't be as hollow as the headline suggested). If they had limited the scope of the article to the problem they wish to describe, I'd agree with you. But the headline and the "lol, trump" paragraphs aim the article higher. Those aspects don't stick to the tough data-driven no-nonsense image fivethrityeight tries to convey.
Lies, damn lies and statistics.
