White pillars at a court house

Every person who forced their way into the Capitol should be arrested

Every person who forced their way into the Capitol should be arrested

In criminology, there are three levers for fighting crime, as the late Mark Kleiman previously explained: swiftness (how quickly someone is punished), certainty (the likelihood someone is punished), and severity (how harsh a person’s punishment is)—established way back in the 1700s by an Italian criminologist called Cesare Beccaria.