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Wait, you're saying that 25-30% of the US population have a criminal conviction? That seems extremely high, no?
by aix1 3y ago
Wait, you're saying that 25-30% of the US population have a criminal conviction? That seems extremely high, no?
- abeyer 3y agoYeah, I think that was a general estimate I found some supporting research for a few years back when I looked into it a bit, and I've seen similar quoted elsewhere. It's not easy to come up with an accurate number at all due to all the different state systems not being perfectly comparable, treating different things in different ways, and duplicating individuals who have convictions in more than one state. Even attempts to link them together have been incomplete and inaccurate. I'm not particularly surprised at that level, though... it's going to include _lots_ of low-level things that are technically classified criminal even though they're often just a ticket: kids caught with beer at a party, speeding in areas that have a "20 over the limit" rule that automatically upgrades to a higher offense, failure to pay tickets that gets escalated to a court, etc...
- fastaguy88 3y agohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049089X21001265#:~:text=(2017)%20show%20that%20while%20the,et%20al.%2C%202017 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00490...) suggest that in 2017, 8% of the US adult population had a felony conviction, 24% of Black adults, and 33% of Black males. But for TSA Pre/Global entry, the relevant number is the number of fliers, where I suspect the felony rates are lower.