This has always been a question of mine - how would a communist state deal with homicides, robbery, thefts, burglaries, and other nuisance crime
This has always been a question of mine - how would a communist state deal with homicides, robbery, thefts, burglaries, and other nuisance crime
Graeber writes at some length in The Dawn of Everything about how certain Native American tribes (who were communist in all but name) had no central authority whatsoever to enforce punishment, but instead had strong social connections that made everyone accountable for each other. This combined with the fact that there was really no need to commit crimes - they lived in such an equitable and afluent condition that there was hardly any crime to speak of.
If someone stole food, for example (this is a bad example, I can't remember the actual example Graber uses) the thief himself wouldn't be punished retributively, rather his family or friends would apologize on his behalf and make restitution. It's an ingenious and compassionate way to think about justice, and it worked so well precisely because the communistic structure of their society inherently addressed the material basis for criminality, namely poverty.
Thing is that what you have in your hands after the revolution is a world and society that has gone through hundreds to thousands of years under feudalism , capitalism and various religious and cultural paradigms. Until the entire socioeconomic structure is radicaly transformed and until generations grow up under it that approach Grabber describes isn't feasible. It's something to work towards down the line but it may only be workable decades and decades after a revolution.
Based on the OP prompt you have to plan an approach based of how people are now and how society is the day after the revolution(that isn't even global necessarily) . Barely begining a slow wholscale transformation towards communism but far from achieving it. So it has to work with the humanity and deep rooted societal and cultural scars capitalism leaves as with and for however long it takes to move away from them
Also it sounds like that approach is specifically tied to people who would generally stay and live in proximity with their family and the same people for most of their lives to form very close bonds like that, which seems like even if you have people who have lived under a communist socioeconomic structure is not going to be the case due to the ease of transport.