It's essential to have a zero tolerance policy on violent crime and a sensible approach to those who are not psychopaths or habitual criminals and may be made useful by training in prison.
The most effective method is that of reducing crime by a multi-pronged effect through better policing, a good basic education for all citizens, training facilities with employment to match and a sense of moral responsibility that is well demonstrated in the role model of the family unit and the early learned responsibilities and behaviour inside that unit, panning out to the extended family of the community and nation.
Naturally overpopulation works against this model because it makes more than the system can realistically provide for. Education can be preventive of this and so can a sensible immigration policy, namely no immigration policy, as such, for a country like Britain and the concentration instead on skills training and care for the extant population with a view to reducing the burden on the state, the tax payer and the environment. These views are why I am not a liberal. I believe humans must take their place within the natural system not enthrone themselves on top of it and proceed to treat it like a heap of raw materials that has no end.
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