"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote:
>Yes, we do have overall higher crime rates than Japan, but not that much
>higher. For example, our murder rate is 6 times higher than Japan (9 vs 1.5
>murders per 100,000 population). So having 194 times as many people per
>capita in prison for murder than Japan means that our murder incarceration
>rate is 32 TIMES higher than we'd expect it to be.
>>Why? Our court system is obviously doing something very wrong.
Rather, it sounds like our court system is doing something right. It
is convicting the murderers and putting them in jail, where they stay.
http://www.lindesmith.org/library/sentence/behndbrs.html
>What do you think is the problem?
YOU are the problem. What is the solution?
lojbab
