top | item 3829126 "Raise the Crime Rate" 5 points| cs702 | 14 years ago |schneier.com | reply 3 comments order hn newest [+] [-] nextstep|14 years ago|reply The original article is very good: http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate [+] [-] rajpaul|14 years ago|reply I assume the decrease in crime has a lot of factors. But, can't the decline of violent crime be partly explained by more people being kept in prison?http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/US_incarc...If criminals are kept in jail longer, they can commit fewer crimes against the public. [+] [-] cs702|14 years ago|reply rajpaul -- the point of the original article is that the crime rate has not really declined; instead, crime has been _shifted_ to the prison system, where incarcerated people live permanently or semi-permanently in horrible conditions.
[+] [-] nextstep|14 years ago|reply The original article is very good: http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
[+] [-] rajpaul|14 years ago|reply I assume the decrease in crime has a lot of factors. But, can't the decline of violent crime be partly explained by more people being kept in prison?http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/US_incarc...If criminals are kept in jail longer, they can commit fewer crimes against the public. [+] [-] cs702|14 years ago|reply rajpaul -- the point of the original article is that the crime rate has not really declined; instead, crime has been _shifted_ to the prison system, where incarcerated people live permanently or semi-permanently in horrible conditions.
[+] [-] cs702|14 years ago|reply rajpaul -- the point of the original article is that the crime rate has not really declined; instead, crime has been _shifted_ to the prison system, where incarcerated people live permanently or semi-permanently in horrible conditions.
[+] [-] nextstep|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] rajpaul|14 years ago|reply
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/US_incarc...
If criminals are kept in jail longer, they can commit fewer crimes against the public.
[+] [-] cs702|14 years ago|reply