We alienate, ostracize, give up on, target, ridicule, abuse and restrict. This is costly and expensive. It's a major legal initiative to keep a person down, with endless appeals and legal proceedings, and add to that the cost of incarceration and the long range cost to society. Our actions are very draining and war-like.
This fundamental negative approach is responsible for more than just recidivism. It's why families falter, why we have school shootings, terrorists targeting us, a lawsuit-happy population, and too many laws and lawyers.
The great variety of personal beliefs that typically characterize the criminal way of thinking and cause all the aforementioned problems all stem from a wide-scale underlying distrust of human nature prevalent in our country's philosophy and values. This basic distrust comes to a head in certain types of people and institutions.
It's not just kids that are bullies, many of America's prosecutors and reporters are monster-makers. On the grand collective scale, the venom and hatred spawned is incalculable. Once mistreatment (profiling) injects venom into a person, that person adopts the same poisonous attitude of the “snake” that bit him. The destroyed person is infected with a stew of “living poisons” which always surface in prison and after. When the prisoner is returned to society, the venom that originated from society, as a philosophy about guilt and punishment, with media, prosecutors, etc. comes out. The favor is returned—the venom and its multiplied effects—returns into its source (has come home).