And the best way to address that is the root cause of why the criminals are criminals in the first place and imprison the few that refuse to change.
Also, non-Western countries generally don't have a great track record with things like gay rights, women's right, etc. So I'm mostly happy that we do things the Western way and not otherwise.
You can hardly compare a grandfather dictatorship that's smaller than most major cities as something that western countries would want to emulate. Aside from the fact that it's the kind of place where they'll put you to death for a gram of weed. Nobody in the west wants that.