Do Countries With the Death Penalty Have Lower Crime Rates?
Question by Random_asker: Do countries with the death penalty have lower crime rates?
And if that is the case, could you back it up with some statistics, the help is greatly appreciated
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Answer by Howard L
There is no better example than Singapore possibly the safest place on Earth. Singapore has 12 times the population of Vancouver but just half the crime rate. But in addition to having a death penalty which they do not hesitate to exercise they also have severe penalties for lesser crimes as well. Also, I believe Singaporean culture based on Chinese society generates fewer criminals to begin with. It becomes difficult to say how much the death penalty itself contributes.
In the US we have a death penalty on the books but spending 15 years in jail on appeals with an excellent likelihood that the death penalty will be commuted by a governor or overturned by a court hardly qualifies as a death penalty. In Singapore execution almost always takes place within 60 days of conviction. That is what I consider a deterrent.
Answer by Raymont
Los angeles,ca has the d.p. and the crime has always been high so to me it really doesn’t matter atleast it doesn’t seem like it.
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There is no correlation between the death penalty and crime rate. Every study has concluded that the death penalty is either has no deterrent effect, or very little deterrent effect.
Not really sure about this one.
After 1994 when South Africa became a “democracy” the death penalty was abolished. It was deemed unconstitutional and also seen as racist because it was mostly (maybe 99%) black people who were hung. Since then murder, rape and violent crimes (actually all crimes) escalated to such a level that in the past the government placed a moratorium on the release of crime statistics.
An interesting note: A few days ago the Canadian government granted assylum to a white South African family due to the very high levels of crime aimed especially against white people. This is not 100% correct because although white people bear the brunt of these violent crimes, a lot of crime is committed against black people too.
For Wikipedia article visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_South_Africa
At least the death penalty helps to get rid of these f*ckers!
Out of the “Western” countries, I believe the US and Japan are the only ones that still use the death penalty. The US has the highest violent crime rate out of all of them. So to answer your question no, having the death penalty doesn’t reduce the crime rate. Most violent crimes that would warrant the death penalty are crimes of passion/rage done in the heat of the moment so many don’t stop and think of the punishment when caught up in the mix. Look up data on Interpol and the FBI website might have the statistics.
Some have, some haven’t. A lot of examples are being called. Singapore, South Africa,…
The crime rate depends on other factors than death penalty alone.
Anyway, of the rich countries, only the US and Japan have the death penalty. The US has a cery high crime rate, Japan a low one.
The European countries all have little violent crime, and none has the death penalty
There are exceptions but on average, the exact opposite is true – countries that don’t have the death penalty have LOWER crime rates.
Take a look at the link below – within the U.S., murder rates are consistently lower in states that don’t have capital punishment.
This is probably due, at least in part, to the high cost (it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute someone than to imprison them for life) – every extra dollar spent on capital punishment is one that’s NOT going to police departments, drug treatment programs, education, and other government services that help prevent crime.
Personally, I think it also has to do with the hypocrisy of the state taking a stand against murder…by killing people. The government fosters a culture of violence by saying, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’