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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-imprisoners-dilemma/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-imprisoners-dilemma/ has this creepy chart https://espnfive
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-imprisoners-dilemma/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-imprisoners-dilemma/ has this creepy chart https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/roeder-feature-incarceration-1.png https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/roed...
- jacquesm 12y agoThat's absolutely shocking.
- hippich 12y agoI think this is because of "war on drugs." Officials decides that drug sellers and drug users are danger to the society, and therefore locked away (i will not argue about dangers, just stating what Nixon and most of officials did)
- task_queue 12y agoThree strike laws, zero tolerance, the War on Drugs and prison profiteering have resulted in a generations of poor or black males who will spend the majority of their adult lives in prison.
- innguest 12y agoIt started to go up right after the dollar being unpegged from gold. Crime going up could be related, in this case, to jobs being lost as the currency goes haywire everywhere. See this very convincing chart for instance, where it is clear job reallocation was going on full-force: http://www.edmundconway.com/2015/02/the-worst-goods-trade-balance-in-more-than-three-centuries/ http://www.edmundconway.com/2015/02/the-worst-goods-trade-ba...