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"Raise the Crime Rate"
- nextstep 15y agoThe original article is very good: http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
- rajpaul 15y agoI 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_incarceration_timeline-clean-fixed-timescale.svg 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 15y agorajpaul -- 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.