What does the nonintervention perspective advocate for?
What will be an ideal response?
The nonintervention perspective advocates for the legalization of victimless crimes, nonserious offenses, and common sense approach to criminal justice. Crimes like prostitution, possession/use of marijuana, gambling, and public drunkenness should be decriminalized. These crimes do not hurt anyone other than the offender and in a free society consenting adults should be allowed to do whatever the like to themselves. The nonintervention perspective also advocates for the release of nonviolent offenders and release from probation and parole.
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