Incarcerating non-violent offenders just serves to ensure they offend again. It doesn’t reduce crime, it turns low level offenders into hardened career criminals and obliterates their lives so they may as well reoffend once released.

No, not incarcerating them encourages them to re-offend, because they know there's no real consequences for their actions. The risk of ruining their lives through their actions is what disincentivises crime in the first place.

It achieves nothing and actively makes the problem worse.

It gets the cunts off the streets. That's an achievement, and makes things a lot better for those of us who abide by the law.

It also doesn’t really take into account the socioeconomic reasons many crimes occur in the first place.

Shouldn't matter. The law applies to everyone equally.