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Frank Erskine;947799 Wrote:


I'm afraid that I don't subscribe to the view that once you've served
a sentence you're as clean as the man next door, which effectively
"commercialises" crime by giving it a specific "price" as punishment.


But how can you do otherwise? Have a lottery where one day a shoplifter
might get a life sentence, and the next day a serial murderer gets a
£50
fine? The whole idea of making the punishment commensurate to the crime
does put a price (or at least a price range) on it.

But I think you were perhaps referring to the Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act whereby after a period your crime may be "spent" and you
no longer have to declare it on job applications. It takes a time for
your crime to be "spent" and many ever are.


IIRC only non-custodial crimes are ever "spent"

Nope. Prison sentences shorter than two and a half years become spent
after a certain period. Sentences longer than that, don't.

Janet