Since the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, replacing an imprison-too-many-people system with a flog-too-many-people system doesn’t seem like the most important thing to me. It seems more important to figure out how to punish fewer people in the first place.
This seems to be hard when actual crimes (murder, violent crimes, etc.) are committed; seems to be good to figure out why they commit the crimes, and reducing that reason in the first place is more fundamental.
Since the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, replacing an imprison-too-many-people system with a flog-too-many-people system doesn’t seem like the most important thing to me. It seems more important to figure out how to punish fewer people in the first place.
This seems to be hard when actual crimes (murder, violent crimes, etc.) are committed; seems to be good to figure out why they commit the crimes, and reducing that reason in the first place is more fundamental.