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Which Shell is the Pea Under? Government Crime Statistics Invoke Slight of Hand

Loaded on June 15, 1991 published in Prison Legal News June, 1991, page 2
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.
The U.S. Justice Department claims a "definite and positive" link between locking people up and violent crime rates in the United States. As more offenders go to prison, the argument goes, violent crime decreases.

It seems there was a 17% decrease in the nation's imprisonment rate during the 1960s, but ...

 

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