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Do you have reason to believe that people born during that window are particularly jail-prone?
by stonogo 12y ago
Do you have reason to believe that people born during that window are particularly jail-prone?
- Iftheshoefits 12y agoA large number of other reasons than your suggestion exist which may alter that rate for other cohorts: the quantity of offenses which allow arrest may have changed, the attitude of law enforcement may be more or less lax, etc.
- smackfu 12y agoCrime is definitely way down in the last 10 years. If you assume that most people are getting arrested in their 20's, then that would imply the rates would change for different birth years.
- eric_h 12y ago> Crime is definitely way down in the last 10 years violent crime is. I don't think arrests are, though...
- pdkl95 12y agoThere is one particularly well-correlated explanation for the higher rates of violent crime in roughly that time window: Ethyl (tetraethyl lead). http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li... edit: as noted in neighboring posts, "arrest" != "crime"