IntellectualMonopoly

Maybe you are just libertarian light, but I recommend you read Bruce Benson's "To Serve and Protect"

The goal of our "justice" system should be focus on restitution and making whole the victims of crimes. This could be done in many ways, but one suggested is allowing prisoners to pick what private prison they went to. Whichever prison offered the best use for their skills would attract the most prisoners and help them pay off whatever restitution they owed as fast as possible. It would add choice to the system, massively improving care and safety, and no longer hurt victims twice by forcing them to also pay for someone's jail sentence.

I remember at one point you talking about the proper compensatory payments for someone that has been found responsible by an arbitrator/court. You suggested the idea that we would have multipliers based on the chance of catching a perpetrator. If roughly 1 in 10 bank robbers are caught, the damages for robbing banks should be multiplied by 10. My initial reaction to this was that people would set up honeypot like situations to easily catch criminals and make scamming the system a kind of business. Even though their chance to catch the criminal in their specific circumstance was much closer to 100%, they would still try to claim 10x damages. This whole systems strikes me as extremely convoluted and hard to manage. Technically every individual crime has a different chance of catching the guilty party based on individual circumstances. We also have the effect of no longer encouraging people to take reasonable measures to defend themselves. I don't see things like door locks or security cameras as particularly onerous investments to defend my property, and the incentive structure of our society has made those technologies ubiquitous.

I guess my question is would you err on the side of encouraging investment in defense of property or overpaying victims of crimes?