"There are three major crimes, convictions of which automatically label the convicted felon a “discarded citizen" for shipment to the last-stop island.

Those crimes are rape, kidnapping (i.e. child-traffickers) and murder. Guns are outlawed.

In 'Atturraa', the death penalty is also in force and may be given at the request of the judge or the prisoner himself, if rehabilitation treatment has failed.

In such a case the felon is given a glass of liquid from a tree called the Poison Root which induces a painless death within an hour.

Even in perfect environments certain people are 'criminally prone' and cannot be conditioned to the norm required by a civil code of laws.

This fact is true both in societies above and below. But in Atturraas their confinements for offenders are located in rehabilitation centers and hospitals, rather than in prisons.

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here are few youthful offenders in the interior world, perhaps because, the 'responsibility for a youthful crime' rests with, 'the parents', who are judged on a guilt basis, along with, the youth convicted.
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Obviously, the basic unit of learning and training in their society is the home, even before church or school.

If early school tests indicate a criminal tendency in a child, he is removed from classes and placed in a hospital for correctional therapy at an early age.

Our news media 'below' (as in 'Bodland') does not carry stories of crime, let alone headline them.

Nor do we have long drawn out judicial exercises.

An apprehended murderer generally is tried the second week with the death sentence carried out the following week.

Youth gangs are not tolerated and common assaults and muggings, so widespread above, don't exist below.

All male youth in Atturraas and Bodland must serve two years without pay in one of the defense forces where behavior disciplines are further emphasized.

There is no syndicate crime problem 'below'."

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