One of the most robust findings in criminology is that increasing the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect. People simply aren’t as sensitive to the potential costs of crime as the rational-choice model predicts they should be, and so efforts to reduce it by cracking down have failed to justify the immense fiscal and social costs of

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GUY IN HOODIE WALKS INTO CAFE YELLING HIS MANIFESTO AS HE READS OFF HIS LAPTOP. Yikes. Was this really about to happen? In which direction should I dive? Within 10 seconds the staff cuts him off, and it seems like they’ve dealt with him before. At some point I hear, “I’d never hurt anyone, I just gotta say this.” Part of me wants to never go back

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