Prevention is the Natural Law platform in a nutshell. If we can prevent crime, then victims don't become victims, and that is infinitely better for them than any petty, mincing satisfaction they could glean from the cumbersome, bureaucratic workings of penal justice. Prevention occurs on three levels. The first is so far away from the question of crime, that most of us wouldn't make the connection, so I want to send you to my section on education to consider what the NLP wants to do in that area. Second level involves people at risk but not yet involved in anything really dangerous or damaging.
Education plays the greatest role here, too.
We want to fully fund Head Start, for instance, enhance the nutritional content of school lunches, and make drug rehabilitation readily available to anyone who needs it. The third level is the most difficult, because here we have to intervene in prisons with people who may be genuinely dangerous. Jay Marcus, in his excellent book, The Crime Vaccine, has detailed a number of strategies readily, and cost-effectively available for use in prisons. The excrutiating point you'll gain if you read this, is that some of the best solutions have been side-tracked even after repeatedly proving their value, and for the most miserable of political reasons. It's too late in time to make our best ideas wait in the hall while we have a fight over who sits in the leather chair on Capitol Hill and hundreds of billions of dollars are leaking down the crime drain every year.