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>>35834546
The easier way to prevent crime, rather than 'predicting human mental development through certain stimuli', is to simply severely punish criminals a la Rome.
I've heard the argument that execution means the criminal has no reason to not kill his victims, well, then it won't be execution but torture until death.

'For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion. Wherefore, matters should be so ordered that when men no longer believe of their own accord, they may be compelled to believe by force'.
- De Principatibus