The Importance of Preventive Justice in a Society

If we're expanding these offenses out to cover these sorts of things, robbery and assault with intent to rob then, there's no barrier. There's nothing to stop us expanding it out further and further to shoplifting to speeding offenses potentially or other criminal traffic offenses and the like. So that is still a kind of preventive justice. It's not incarceration but you're still placing restrictions on the person's liberty preventively. And it may trigger problems of different sorts as well. Those sorts of provisions have been controversial in various contexts. But at its heart here is a question about what we want as a society. If what we want is to prevent every possible risk and lock up every possible person who