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"Raise the Crime Rate"

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/raise_the_crime.html

by cs702 • 14 years ago

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nextstep• 14 years ago

The original article is very good: http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate

rajpaul• 14 years ago

I assume the decrease in crime has a lot of factors. But, can't the decline of violent crime be partly explained by more people being kept in prison?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/US_incarc...

If criminals are kept in jail longer, they can commit fewer crimes against the public.

cs702• 14 years ago

rajpaul -- the point of the original article is that the crime rate has not really declined; instead, crime has been _shifted_ to the prison system, where incarcerated people live permanently or semi-permanently in horrible conditions.

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