Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

MTR 2.0 asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 7 years ago

Which is more important?

Protecting the innocent or incarcerating criminals?

The crime of rape is difficult to prove.

Feminist will tell that means our culture is a rape culture.

But it is because it is the presumption of innocence creates a difficult burden of proof.

So is it more important to lock up people accused of rape by reducing the burden of proof by removing the presumption of innocence.

Or is it more important that a justice should start from the point of a presumption of innocence for everybody in all accusations of crime, equally?

4 Answers

Relevance
  • 7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Protecting the innocent. Most people won't agree with me but I would rather see 10 rapists go free than 1 innocent go to prison, for something they didn't do. The innocent should always be the priority.

  • 7 years ago

    Keeping track of either is more difficult in an exponential sense, but defining innocent is usually assigned while identifying the guilty has often been proven an inaccurate assumption.

  • 7 years ago

    Ignoring those innocent only adds to the damage done, crimes can't be undone sadly and punishing those who have done nothing wrong doesn't achieve anything.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    both are really important for the protection of the citizens and future generations.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.