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There will be presidential elections in Argentina in a pair of weeks, and tonight the candidates took part in the presidential debates. At one point, Javier Milei was talking about crime in Argentina (which is quite high) and said this (translation by me)
"[...] this disaster is because of embracing the ideas of doctor Zaffaroni, who in the last 20 years caused a real disaster in this country, because basically he changes the roles of victim and victimizer, so that thiefs are treated like victims when they are actually the ones who ought to be jailed. These ideas were proposed by Zaffaroni and they were not new, they had been promoted in the 1960s in New York, and 20 years later it was also a disaster [...]"
(For the full speech, in Spanish, see here, Milei's turn starts at 15:30)
I'm from Argentina and I'm already familiar with Eugenio Zaffaroni and his aforementioned ideas, so I knew what he was talking about. The part that confused me a bit is the reference to New York, as he gave no names that I can google, and my knowledge of US history is limited to the things of worldwide impact. Do you get the reference? Was there a crime spree, a controversial policy towards crime or something like that back then, something with an article that I can check and compare with Zaffaroni? Cambalachero ( talk) 13:19, 9 October 2023 (UTC)