Yes, because moving towards a rehab-based prison culture isn't a good idea. Norway, Sweden, Germany and all the like are just hellholes filled with crime and corruption because they don't ever kill people. /s

Ruling by fear is what you're talking about. Most developed countries decided that was a bad idea after the horrors of the purges under Stalin, the Great Leap Forward, Pol Pot, Pinochet, et al. It's barbaric and certainly NOT how a country should be acting in 20-fucking-17. Duterte is enacting this right now (albeit his "war on drugs" is a thinly-veiled attack on who he sees as "inferiors" and his political opponents) and parts of the Philippines are devolving into neighbors spying on neighbors at a rate that would make Joe McCarthy pop a boner. China is seeing the results of Tiananmen and Mao in their young people, who are leaving the country in droves. Russia has taken the opposite route and is suffering for it - many of their young people pine for "the good old days" under the USSR, because it's been romanticized so much by the older generation. Singapore, according to my friends that live there, is a pit of corruption and stratified social standing, with all efforts not focused on "cleaning up crime", but rather keeping up appearances.