In a just published book, "Thinking About Crime," Michael Tonry, a distinguished American law professor and director of Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology, reports that the US has the highest percentage of its population in prison than any country on earth. The US incarceration rate is as much as 12 times higher than that of European countries.

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Unless you believe that Americans are more criminally inclined than other humans, what can explain the US incarceration rate being so far outside the international mainstream? I can think of the following reasons:
(1) In order to prove that they are "tough on crime," politicians have criminalized behavior that is legal elsewhere.
(2) Many innocent Americans are in jail.
(3) Due to inferior social conditions, more people in the USA get trapped in life of crime than in other industrialized nations.
My hunch is that all three reasons hold.

hmmm

well since Americansbelieve that you cannot blame racisim for the large number of blacks in prison!

I hear it all the time "do not blame Whiety"

Then the only reason must be

- due to their capatilistic greed of money, money ,money that sends them to go to any extremes to commit crimes,



or

genetic blueprint of criminal mind

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The point of this thread is?confused3

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Hypocritical question from a hypocrite. If Coltrane had started a thread about corrupt African leaders, you of all people would not have asked:

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