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Multiple sclerosis SOCIETY OF CANADA 1-800-268-7582 Lash no deterrence from page 1 rarely in a sober, rational state of mind, Pickett said: "Even when we had capital punishment, we still had murders. People commit crimes in the heat of passion or because of drunkenness. I had a client who was only 17 or 18 and he'd been incarcerated many times. At six years old he had started sniffing gasoline and it fried his brain. He wasn't rational. This boy was a sick boy. Whipping or caning him wouldn't have deterred him." Whitehead questioned Steckle's logic that subjecting someone to a violent whipping would make , the person less violent. The professor pointed out we try to curb violence in children by decreasing the amount of violence they see and experience. "Once they become adults, sud- denly more violence equals less violence?" he said. . Pickell and others maintained regardless of the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of whipping as a deterrent, it should never be used. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, I don't accept that. If you hurt somebody we'll do that to you; that's not the way we should be looking at otu- fellow' human beings. Most of the people who offend in Huron County, something got them off the right track: a bad childhood, alcohol, their mental state --they're depressed because they can't keep a job," Pickell said. Several experts suggested we are prohibited by our own laws and international treaties we have signed from bringing back the lash. "I'm not aware of it existing in any developed countries," said Jacques Belanger, a spokesperson', for ' Correctional Services : of. Canada. The caning received earlier this year by American youth Michael • Faye in Singapore violated inter- national human rights , standards, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The. Torture Convention, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Solomon said caning or whipping would be prohibited as cruel and unusual punishment under the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. ' "Our freedoms - mean 'we're not incredibly effective in terms of preventing crime. We could be very effective if wewere a police state. Two people in blue suits decide who is guilty, take him into an alley and put a bullet. in him. That's very effective: it costs six cents nd 'that person never commits another crime," Solomon said. Whitehead agreed that we pay -•a price for our freedoms and painted 'another hypothetical situation. • "We could really decrease the number of assaults, robberies, and break and enters by having an. eight o'clock curfew for everybody. But we don't like curfews. We are prepared to .tolerate more crimeso we can be out in the evening," he said. 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If 50 prisoners say, 'I want that course,' there might be room for ten. "For dangerous offenders, the government has to give the correc= tions people the power to say 'There's no hope. We shouldn't be turning that guy loose. We have to hold on to him,'" Young said. Solomon urged people to look at the roots of criminal behavior. "Let's look at the social causes of crime. Let's look at the availability of guns and alcohol, and the laws dealing with child abuse," he said: Alcohol abuse is one of the main contributors to crime, Pickell agreed, as are unproper values • associated with violence. "We need to engender respect for people, rules, the law. Parents need to take . a hard look at what we tolerate on playgrounds and on .the hockey rink. We can make changes through education. In recent years we've taken a tougher stand .on spouse abuse and now kids are growing up knowing it's not accep- table any more," he said. . Whitehead said effective policing and a public that .reports crime diligently are excellent crime deter- rents. There is a high rate of less serious crimes like vandalism in Canada because people, do not report it. The low likelihood of apprehension emboldens offenders. The teacher said Canadian police are very effective at apprehending and convicting people who commit more serious crimes. He challenged the notion that violent crime is increasing. . "For most communities, if you look at violent crime statistics, there have been no major changes. For the last five years the numbers tend to be about the same. We somehow think more of it is happening," Whitehead said. The Solicitor General said recent figures show crime • has actually decreased. Gray agreed Canadians generally believe the . opposite is true. The cause of the misperception ' may he found in a few high profile cases, Whitehead explained. The constant media coverage -of the Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy murders makes it "seem like the murders just happened; it seems those girls have been killed over and over again. We get a . sense innocent kids are being killed, when in reality the murder rate is very low." • Whitehead said "it is not new that people feel frustrated about the problems of crime. We all would like less crime," and he urged people to pursue productive. and humane solutions. OPP investigate ,from page 1 According to neighbors, most of that work was in the Toronto and Hamilton area. Neighbors also indicated there were numerous parties held at the Baltrusaitis home but one resident said it had been unusually quiet. She hadn't seen the family's dog, Baltrusaitis's wife or young child for several days. Baltrusaitis has been a resident of Inverhuron for about five years. 4P. . The investigation is being con- ' ducted from a new Community Policing Office in Tiverton' which the OPP were preparing to open before the murder occurred. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Kincardine OPP at 396-3341 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-265-3787. The murder investigation is being led by Inspector Bob Goodall of the criminal investigation branch from the Ontario Provincial Police in London.