Criminologists say that basically too many people are absent for too long, the system is unpredictable, the laws are not clearly written and it criminalizes acts that should not be criminalised. While reading this I wondered why these issues haven't been resolved; if those who are criminologists see a problem in something they know very well and study, something needs to be changed in the system. I believe everything that criminologists say is true: people are incarcerated for a very long time that doesn't fit the crime. As in the case of Mr Norris, the man who sold flowers, he could have got a potential 10 year because some of his documents were incorrect. To think that a man would lose 10 years of his life over a piece of paper really shows the problem with the justice system. I also didn't like the way he was housed with others whose crimes were much worse than his who could have been harmed. The second problem, relating to laws that are not clearly written, is a big problem because it leaves room for generalization and every case is different. A judge should consider these things on a case-by-case basis rather than attempting to generalize because the law says they must be a minimum number of years old. The last problem identified by criminologists that really made me reflect and think was how criminalized laws shouldn't be because it's true that some things aren't serious enough to