[hvdfhbj]

I don't know how anyone can look at the US and come to the conclusion that there's too many people in prison. When I walk down the streets of any major US city I get the exact opposite impression -- a lot more people should be in prison.

The US doesn't have too many prisoners, it has far far far too many criminals, and the high incarceration rates are an inevitable product of that. The US needs to solve that problem first.

How many criminals are the offspring of other criminals? To what extent could the crime problem be solved in a single generation by ensuring that teenage offenders are locked up throughout their reproductively active years (instead of forever dipping in and out of prison on short sentences) to ensure that they don't reproduce?

[swirepe]

>How many criminals are the offspring of other criminals? To what extent could the crime problem be solved in a single generation by ensuring that teenage offenders are locked up throughout their reproductively active years (instead of forever dipping in and out of prison on short sentences) to ensure that they don't reproduce?

Maybe we should forcibly sterilize anyone we don't like? At least anyone we can't lock up and use for free labor.

Or maybe you could kiss my fat American ass?

[anemoiac]

Is this (a poor attempt at) satire?

[polski-g]

Genetic pacification worked to fix European criminality: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1474704915013001...

[anemoiac]

* More like, may have contributed to a reduction in violence since the 11th-century.

While it’s possible that some form of genetic pacification might work to reduce deviant behavior over centuries to come, the concept lacks relevance in a discussion about criminality in a nation where violent crime has fallen for decades and high rates of incarceration are more readily explained by a host of factors far less abstract than genetics.