Henry Nowak

[Jordi Culé]

You make it sound like shop lifting is minor.
It might be for the bigger chains, but your average small shop owner can lose a days profit in one swoop.

I agree with you Billy.

Never understand the knobhead who takes four cans from the local shop when you could stroll into Tesco and walk out with a crate.

I'm not trivialising shoplifting either as it is a massive problem for small and independent shop owners.

I don't think there's too many real deterrents for shoplifting? I'd say there's an actual disregard by some towards the victims of shoplifting and it's always been seen by some as 'fair game'.

Anecdotal tale to tell but once did a few stints of Community Service, the amount of shoplifters on the shifts were aplenty. All basically felt they wouldn't
receive a custodial sentence and that was nearly 30 years ago.

As I'm on a policy roll, how about the cat o' nine tails for shoplifting from a small trader?

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Great idea. Let’s just let every small time criminal do what they want, and just write them a strongly worded letter. No need to jail any of them then. You’d make an ideal modern day politician.

Isn't the purpose of prison rehabilitation rather than punishment? And why can't those who are not deemed a flight risk or dangerous be allowed to work on the outside picking up litter, cleaning graffiti, and so on. Many would prefer working outdoors than being inside all day.

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(I did after my 11th burglary)

I didn't have you down as a career criminal

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Let's bring back public stocks and bring back some community participation in allowing the public to randomly kick and cuff miscreants who are caught breaking the law like ASB, shop lifting, being late with the Ocado delivery.

If there's any Reform policy advisors reading this I demand some credit please.

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As I'm on a policy roll, how about the cat o' nine tails for shoplifting from a small trader?

suddenly sludge starts shoplifting from smalle traders

[William Treseder]

Isn't the purpose of prison rehabilitation rather than punishment? And why can't those who are not deemed a flight risk or dangerous be allowed to work on the outside picking up litter, cleaning graffiti, and so on. Many would prefer working outdoors than being inside all day.

Are the ones being released early now being made to do voluntary work ?