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minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 hours agoWell with shoplifting, aren’t the penalties correlated with the value of the items stolen? And if you then went on to do it again the next day, and got cought, I imagine the combined value of the stolen items would be considered in the case.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoYeah, the punishmentd does scale up the more you have committed a crime before being caught. But it still cannot exceed the maximum specified in the law.
Well with shoplifting, aren’t the penalties correlated with the value of the items stolen?
And if you then went on to do it again the next day, and got cought, I imagine the combined value of the stolen items would be considered in the case.
Yeah, the punishmentd does scale up the more you have committed a crime before being caught. But it still cannot exceed the maximum specified in the law.