changes to justice system

Describe changes society could make to the criminals justice system that would stop crime without incarceration.

 If we changes our views on what a criminal is I think it would help stop crime without incarceration. Why is it that an adult human who smokes weed on occasion considered a criminal and needs to spend time in jail? Did we not go through the same debate with alcohol?   “A permanent ban on the sale, transportation, importing, and exporting of alcoholic beverages was enacted by passage of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by Congress in December, 1917. It took just over one year for the Amendment to be ratified by the states. Prior to the national ban, individual states had passed local bans, and by 1916, 26 of the 48 states banned alcohol. Proponents of the so called "noble experiment" claimed that the nation's health would improve dramatically without alcohol, and that crime would drop. It was also claimed that other industries, like dairy, would prosper as other types of beverages increased in popularity to fill the void left by the absence of alcohol. Juvenile delinquency was also supposed to be virtually eliminated, and the average workers productivity was also supposed to increase, leading to an increase in economic prosperity for the nation. “Why are we opposed to change, why are we staying in the black and white can people not see the color. Is it not the majority of criminals in for things such as weed? When alcohol used to be consider and the same stuff was being said about alcohol then as it is now about weed such as: “The question voters should be asking themselves,” Sabet said, “before voting on these initiatives is this: Is your right to buy pot from a store down the street worth the risk of increased teenage drug abuse, increased enforcement action by the feds, and increased problems like 'stoned driving?’ “The world needs to wake up stop being scared of change. An adult chooses to obey the law or break the law and then will have to suffer the outcome. Who’s to say that “Do you want stoned driving?” Do we not still issue DUIs? I’m pretty sure we due.  

I feel as though we do need to have a justice system however I think that allot of things need to be taken into consideration and punishments need to be considered on what a threat the person is and the crime they are committing is to us being able to live in peace without harm.

 Why are we feeding the prisoners and why are we paying taxes for people who choose to not follow by the rules set up for everyone to live in peace without harm. If a person chooses to disobey the law then why should they get a free pass? I have never been in prison so I don’t know what they have to pay for or what they get but I feel that it should be up to them to get it themselves. If they became criminals because they did not learn to feel the role in society then maybe we need to create a society for them to learn in. such as harvesting their own food you want to eat plant it, harvest it, pick it, clean it, cook it.