Dude, you are seriously off the tracks. I'm not in any way suggesting that people go to jail for crimes they MIGHT commit in the future. I am saying that they need to go to jail for the crimes they have already committed. The bonus is that they will not commit more crimes for the duration of their sentence. I actually managed to follow your train of thought (barely) up to a  point but you obviously used a lot of imagination to reach the conclusion that you did regarding my statement. For the record, a criminal's character is actually  defined by the fact that he or she commits crime.