Being a criminal in Australia is like being a pampered being. For the most part people who commit crimes are 'rewarded' by the system rather than punished.
Consider someone who steals a car, crashes or burns it. They may get their license suspended and if they subsequently drive without a license they may get a slap on the wrist or a "stern warning."
Now consider the victim of the crime. They are left with the cost of a new car. If they have insurance their premiums go up and this affects everyone else in society as so do theirs.
The solution is to assign a permanent debt to the criminal for the cost of damages. This debt stay with them until it is cleared. Wage garnishing and other techniques need to be in place to ensure the debt is paid.
Instead of allowing the minor crimes to go unchallenged these should be addressed more aggressively. If the prisons are full them implement Singapore style canings. The minor crimes will drop off and then by extension so will the number of major crimes. If you want evidence of this look at the case of New York over the past ten years.
Stop treating criminals as the privileged class and stop them causing the depth of damage they are doing so to our society.
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