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Short answer: It doesn't matter.

Long answer: If you believe in hard determinism, then all of this - crime, society's handling of crime, our discussion about crime, etc - is happening as it was preordained. So whatever you end up doing is exactly what you were destined to do, since the beginning of time. Hard determinism's absolute claim that "free will (aka choice) does not exist" automatically implies "all choices are equal".

Meta answer: if you genuinely believed in hard determinism, it's difficult to imagine why you would even bother asking philosophical questions of any kind. The answer is always the same: what happens is what was supposed to happen. Therefore, by contrapositive, asking such questions implies that you probably don't believe in hard determinism. Or at least, the universe is unfolding to seem as if you don't.

Short answer: It doesn't matter, because there is no "should" in determinism.

Long answer: If you believe in hard determinism, then all of this - crime, society's handling of crime, our discussion about crime, etc - is happening as it was preordained. So whatever you end up doing is exactly what you were destined to do, since the beginning of time. Hard determinism's absolute claim that "free will (aka choice) does not exist" automatically implies "all choices are equal (to zero)".

Meta answer: if you genuinely believed in hard determinism, it's difficult to imagine why you would even bother asking philosophical questions of any kind. The answer is always the same: what happens is what was supposed to happen. Therefore, by contrapositive, asking such questions implies that you probably don't believe in hard determinism. Or at least, the universe is unfolding to seem as if you don't. (Edit: if this part of my answer is out of bounds, I apologize.)

If you believe in hard determinism, then all of this - crime, society's handling of crime, our discussion about crime, etc - is unfolding as it was preordained. So whatever you end up doing is exactly what you were destined to do, since the beginning of time.

More strongly, if you genuinely believed in hard determinism, it's difficult to imagine why you would even bother asking philosophical questions of any kind. The answer is always the same: what happens is what was supposed to happen.

(Therefore, by contrapositive, asking such questions implies that you probably don't believe in hard determinism. Or at least, the universe is unfolding to seem as if you don't.)

Short answer: It doesn't matter.

Long answer: If you believe in hard determinism, then all of this - crime, society's handling of crime, our discussion about crime, etc - is happening as it was preordained. So whatever you end up doing is exactly what you were destined to do, since the beginning of time. Hard determinism's absolute claim that "free will (aka choice) does not exist" automatically implies "all choices are equal".

Meta answer: if you genuinely believed in hard determinism, it's difficult to imagine why you would even bother asking philosophical questions of any kind. The answer is always the same: what happens is what was supposed to happen. Therefore, by contrapositive, asking such questions implies that you probably don't believe in hard determinism. Or at least, the universe is unfolding to seem as if you don't.

If you believe in hard determinism, then all of this - crime, society's handling of crime, our discussion about crime, etc - is unfolding as it was preordained. So whatever you end up doing is exactly what you were intended to do, since the beginning of time.

More strongly, if you genuinely believed in hard determinism, it's difficult to imagine why you would even bother asking philosophical questions of any kind. Except that it's what you had been destined to do.

If you believe in hard determinism, then all of this - crime, society's handling of crime, our discussion about crime, etc - is unfolding as it was preordained. So whatever you end up doing is exactly what you were destined to do, since the beginning of time.

More strongly, if you genuinely believed in hard determinism, it's difficult to imagine why you would even bother asking philosophical questions of any kind. The answer is always the same: what happens is what was supposed to happen.

(Therefore, by contrapositive, asking such questions implies that you probably don't believe in hard determinism. Or at least, the universe is unfolding to seem as if you don't.)