Our society utilizes monetary punishments for offenders. Since the evidence shows that it does not reduce recidivism, is this a viable philosophy in terms of crime prevention? Why do we continue to...

Monetary punishment is basically any monetary payment which is imposed or ordered by court of law and agreed with or imposed or ordered by any other legal entity which may be via a judgment, settlement agreement, order, non-prosecution order, deferred prosecution order, declination or may be including penalties, restitution, fines, disgorgement or forfeiture otherwise. Since colonization, monetary sanctions have been used as part of process of punishment wherein it is clearly suggested by the logistic regression analysis that there is no significant association statistically between the recidivism and the monetary...