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I believe crime is at an all time low because everyone is in prison. http://dcj.state.co.us/ors/images/Stats%20Images/crime%20rates%201980-2011_incarceration%2

• Tuna-Fish 13y ago
  Even greater reductions in crime rates are visible all across the Western Europe, and they have worked to reduce incarceration.
  • flexie 13y ago
    Interesting :-) Where can we read about that?
• yardie 13y ago
  I'm going to go with Freakonomics on this one and believe crime is low because fewer criminals are being born.
  • Cthulhu_ 13y ago
    Link? Or is this your way of expressing you believe criminal tendencies are a genetic trait?
    • yardie 13y ago
      > criminal tendencies are a genetic trait? What?! No, I believe criminal tendencies are produced from your environment. Kids in bad homes tend to grow into bad people. Link: http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-should-you-believe/ http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-wh...
    • astine 13y ago
      http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/01/22/what-do-declining-abortion-rates-mean-for-crime-in-the-future/ http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/01/22/what-do-declining-abo... The original argument is in the book. The idea is that children from disadvantaged families are more likely to be aborted, while at the same time, children from disadvantaged families are also more likely to be crime prone. So, logically, abortion reduces crime with a twenty year delay. Personally, I like the lead theory[1] better, but it doesn't matter. It's not about eugenics or genes. 1 http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...