Bikers fighting back

[darrsi]

For every one that's like coffee there's hundreds it would have made not jot of difference to. I know that from 30 odd years experience seeing the same faces returning to prison time after time. All the offending behaviour courses, education, work done by psychologists, doesn't appear to work it is undertaken by inmates in the main to gain early release or in the case of life sentence prisoners, release on life licence. I have no idea what can be done that hasn't already been tried several times over the years. I do have sympathy for the victims and the families of offenders but we all have to make choices most of us choose the right path and not to commit crime.

Did the offending behaviour courses, education and psychology involve the offender sitting down for a series of face to face sessions with their victim?
 
The schemes that do this with young offenders were very effective indeed.  Most did not re-offend.

You're making it all sound so fluffy and straightforward.
Has it ever occurred to you that the victim might not want to sit down with someone who's just made their life a misery? In fact the very thought may actually horrify them.
And as for "not re-offending", that could simply just mean they weren't stupid enough to get caught again.