well, until "hundreds of thousands of people" is defined, we could be first or we could be second. anyway, China is far more advanced on the DP.
"The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College London.
China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison. (That number excludes hundreds of thousands of people held in administrative detention, most of them in China's extrajudicial system of re-education through labor, which often singles out political activists who have not committed crimes.)
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""As one might expect, a good case can be made that fewer Americans are now being victimized" thanks to the tougher crime policies, Paul Cassell, an authority on sentencing and a former federal judge, wrote in The Stanford Law Review.
From 1981 to 1996, according to Justice Department statistics, the risk of punishment rose in the United States and fell in England. The crime rates predictably moved in the opposite directions, falling in the United States and rising in England.
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Originally posted by zeeblebotWait & see what happens to US crime figures once the depression really bites.
""As one might expect, a good case can be made that fewer Americans are now being victimized" thanks to the tougher crime policies, Paul Cassell, an authority on sentencing and a former federal judge, wrote in The Stanford Law Review.
From 1981 to 1996, according to Justice Department statistics, the risk of punishment rose in the United States and fell ...[text shortened]... bly moved in the opposite directions, falling in the United States and rising in England.
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Originally posted by zeeblebotFrom the same article:
""As one might expect, a good case can be made that fewer Americans are now being victimized" thanks to the tougher crime policies, Paul Cassell, an authority on sentencing and a former federal judge, wrote in The Stanford Law Review.
From 1981 to 1996, according to Justice Department statistics, the risk of punishment rose in the United States and fell ...[text shortened]... bly moved in the opposite directions, falling in the United States and rising in England.
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"Rises and falls in Canada's crime rate have closely paralleled America's for 40 years," Tonry wrote last year. "But its imprisonment rate has remained stable."
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterWe could be even tougher on crime and execute people for adultery, have them flogged for minor crimes or have thieves' hands cut off. That would be a real conservative approach that I assume you would laud.
I guess someone has to be the adult and do what needs to be done when it needs to be done instead of mollycoddling criminals, deviants, social misfits and misanthropes:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/23/america/23prison.php
Originally posted by no1marauderAnd that my friend, is why Canada will never be a great country: it mollycoddles its criminals.
From the same article:
"Rises and falls in Canada's crime rate have closely paralleled America's for 40 years," Tonry wrote last year. "But its imprisonment rate has remained stable."