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{ 2007 03 21 }

Why are we #1 here?

Incarceration Rates for Selected Countries

This raises the question: are we imprisoning too many of our citizens, or are other countries not imprisoning enough?

Posted by admin on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at 7:47 am, and filed under Society. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. faithful reader | March 22, 2007 at 7:13 am | Permalink

    The difference in the population’s age also might skew the numbers here. The US has a much younger (and therefore, probably, much more troublemaking) population than “old Europe” and Russia, at least. I don’t know whether the difference is enough to affect the crime rate noticeably.

    Maybe our police are more effective? One can always hope.

    By the way, this blog doesn’t work with Google Reader like your other one does. Any way to fix that?

  2. N=1 | March 22, 2007 at 3:58 pm | Permalink

    I like the concept, and the blog.

    The answer to this particular question is partially answered by the criminalization and incarceration of people with untreated and undertreated mental illness. Over 50% of all inpatient psych care is administered in prisons.

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