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Crime and prison population
Title: Crime and prison population
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 973 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Crime and prison population
The answer to this question is astounding: the U.S. incarcerates 25% of the world’s prison population with only 7% of the world’s population. This is a disturbing anamoly in the history of the world. Never before has a country been able to incarcerate so many people at such a high rate, two million and 1 in 127 respectively. These large numbers are incredibly difficult to think about in meaningful terms. But if you can imagine the …showed first 75 words of 973 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 973 total…incarceration rate for drugs was just 6%, and today it is about 28%. Thus, the decrease in the percentage of violent offenders came mostly with the increase of drug offenders, and this process was fueled by a sensationlized fear of drugs, not violent crime. This means that the electorate is not quite as fooled as Zimmring thinks, and that people quite knowingly went about creating a war on drugs and some of the people who use them.
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