Minimum wage in Prison?! - Page 7

Mancie · 28-02-2007, 01:26

Jesus.. if ugly bods spend more time in prison then I can only conclude you got away with it.. and well done

garinda · 28-02-2007, 01:29

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Originally Posted by Mancie

yep.. it's the same as saying the kids of millionaires have a predestined life.. only thing is they get what they want .. no problem...

Some do, some don't.

They have to make choices like anyone else.

I know people from very disadvantaged backgrounds who have fought hard for a better life, and I know others who were fed with a silver spoon whose life are very empty and sad.

I firmly believe that from a very early age we all make choices.

Do we doss around at school, or do we work hard?

That applies to young people of every background, though having a supportive family behind you helps, but that is applicable to rich, poor, or anywhere in the middle too.

garinda · 28-02-2007, 01:30

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Originally Posted by Mancie

Jesus.. if ugly bods spend more time in prison then I can only conclude you got away with it.. and well done

The really clever ones never get caught.

Mancie · 28-02-2007, 01:35

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The really clever ones never get caught.

Well said.. anyone with the looks of Bill Sikes combined with the brains of Quentin Crisp has my admiration.

steeljack · 28-02-2007, 01:37

seems to me there is a lot to be said about research into the 'criminal ' gene

http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/resea...minalgenes.htm

some folks are simply born bad , so how do we treat them ? or do we excuse their behaviour if they are just bad seeds

garinda · 28-02-2007, 01:44

Same family, same background.

One plays the game, one breaks the rules and ends up inside.

Choices.

garinda · 28-02-2007, 01:45

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Well said.. anyone with the looks of Bill Sikes combined with the brains of Quentin Crisp has my admiration.

It's Sykes, Bill Sykes.

I'd have thought you'd have known that, what with his girlfriend being called Mancie....oops, mean Nancy.

garinda · 28-02-2007, 02:14

Of young men released from prison in 2002, 78.4% were reconvicted within two years.

http://www.crimeinfo.org.uk/topicofthemonth/index.jsp

Well the softly, softly approach doesn't appear to be working terribly well.

WillowTheWhisp · 28-02-2007, 08:45

If poverty automatically led to crime the prisons would be even more overflowing than they already are. Muggers don't mug because they are on the breadline. They mug to feed their drug habit.

SPUGGIE J · 28-02-2007, 09:07

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If poverty automatically led to crime the prisons would be even more overflowing than they already are. Muggers don't mug because they are on the breadline. They mug to feed their drug habit.

Very true but there are also those who do it because of a warped sense of power and prestige it gives them in front of there peers. It makes them in their own eyes "hard men" of the streets.

garinda · 28-02-2007, 10:49

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Very true but there are also those who do it because of a warped sense of power and prestige it gives them in front of there peers. It makes them in their own eyes "hard men" of the streets.

Agreed, but that applies to people from all backgrounds.

Years ago people around here were relatively poor. The vast majority of them were honest and hatd working, being hard up wasn't seen as an excuse to turn to a life of crime.