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Is country X's incarceration rate not related to the quality of it's legal system and institutions?

• deleted 8y ago
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• tengbretson 8y ago
  Not in the direct manner you seem to be implying.
  • wu-ikkyu 8y ago
    The article that rayiner posted was in reference to overzealous policing of arbitrary culture based moral offenses (not being islamic). Are many of the laws in the US not overzealous and arbitrarily moral based as well? For instance non violent drug crimes being punished with harsher sentences than violent crimes?
• danielvf 8y ago
  To a first approximation, incarceration rate is equal to rate of crimes times percent reported to police times percent of solved cases times prosecution rate times sentence length. Some of these are bad things, some of these are good, and the last one is ugly.
  • wu-ikkyu 8y ago
    Starting at the beginning of your equation, is what constitutes a "crime" not defined by the legal system to begin with? Perhaps the US has run wild with their definitions and militaristic enforcement of crimes