Daystar Clarion said:
A person can do terrible, horrifying things to others, but in failing to try and understand what led a person to do such things, that is also a crime against education and understanding.
Understanding something allows us to combat it, and it allows us to rehabilitate those who commit such crimes.
Your sentence will make me think about my own answer and way of thinking, since I respect education and understanding a lot.
However, what to do with the feeling that the criminals seem to be getting off the hook easily? Along with myself, I see a lot of people that feel like this when they see abominable crimes such as rape, torture and murder being "punished" with just some time off from society (assuming we improve our prisons to rehabilitate criminals by educating them while preventing them from causing more harm; since there are also people that just want them to go to jail to be raped by other prisoners, beaten up by guards, have a nasty life full of pain and misery, etc).
Although, in my country, no matter how horrible your crime was, you'll spend 30 years in prison at best (and maybe get off sooner if you behave nicely while in jail), so that's another reason for the feeling of impunity...