Despite the enforcement mechanisms against murders (which work less than 2/3s of the time), you see many places that implement preventive security measures to make killing people more difficult.
I think it is wholey reasonable to work on both preventive and punitive approaches. For online crimes, jurisdictional issues are major hurdles for the punitive approach.
> For online crimes, jurisdictional issues are major hurdles for the punitive approach.
Yeah. If you can catch people in your jurisdiction (without the problems of spoofing and false flags), then people are just going to attack you from outside your jurisdiction. You'd have to firewall your jurisdiction against outside attacks. (You might even be able to do that, by controlling every cable into the country. But then there's satellites...)
I think it is wholey reasonable to work on both preventive and punitive approaches. For online crimes, jurisdictional issues are major hurdles for the punitive approach.