Timeline for Can I reduce the crime rate by penalizing criminals' children socially?

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May 13, 2023 at 4:40	comment	added	Alexander The 1st		@LeeLeon: I'd also add that there's the issue of accomplices - if a judge is caught accepting a bribe for a trial, does that mean everyone who was a clerk or bailiff for the judge while the judge accepted the bribe complicit in the crime that the judge committed? And as a result, all of their children suddenly become criminals through the same pathway?
Aug 18, 2017 at 19:15	comment	added	Lee Leon		It can only be a matter of time before everyone is contaminated by criminality and since being convicted of a crime is not the same as actually having committed the crime, you may be actually innocent anyway. As has already been pointed out, once you, or anyone associated with you has been 'criminalised', there is no incentive not to become criminal, indeed you may be forced into it.
Aug 18, 2017 at 16:28	comment	added	Necessity		yeah, this system will create a new criminal underworld and create a feed back system that will cause its own collapse.
Aug 14, 2017 at 13:45	comment	added	atakanyenel		@Reed the plot of the film "idiocracy" starts with that observation.
Aug 14, 2017 at 13:43	comment	added	Reed		People that do not have higher education nor well paying jobs typically have more children beginning at younger ages. Not only would the OP be increasing the aggressive genes, "bad parents" would theoretically outpace the "good parents" births, leading to more "bad people" than "good people" each generation.
Aug 14, 2017 at 8:06	comment	added	Andy		Heck, Bob and Katie don't even need to commit crimes. Both could have a sibling that commited the crime and they would still be forced into becoming criminals for their children.
Aug 12, 2017 at 19:38	history	answered	atakanyenel	CC BY-SA 3.0