One of the most bizarre trends over the past 60 years or so is the sudden reversal of attitudes among Westerners on the issue of crime.
I’m no social historian, so I can’t pinpoint the exact time this reversal happened, and recognize that there is a substantial fraction of people who are as perplexed by this trend as I am, but as a society writ large, we went from “lock ’em up and throw away the key” to “that poor guy, he had a hard life and deserves a break.”
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