Honor cultures excel at reintegrating offenders

Honor cultures and restorative approaches include a stage for reintegrating offenders into the community once the sentence is served or compensation made, devoting resources to making them valuable contributing members; by contrast modern society not only lacks reintegration mechanisms but actively obstructs them (e.g., the felony-disclosure box on job applications that perpetuates punishment after the debt is paid), removing the incentive for offenders to reform.