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Old 08-16-2006, 06:04 AM
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again sir, what does that mean??

let's study a table:

Crime Statistics > Total crimes (per capita) by country

VIEW DATA: Totals Per capita Definition Source Printable version Bar Graph Map Correlations
Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom) #1 Dominica113.822 per 1,000 people
#2 New Zealand105.881 per 1,000 people
#3 Finland101.526 per 1,000 people
#4 Denmark92.8277 per 1,000 people
#5 Chile88.226 per 1,000 people
#6 United Kingdom85.5517 per 1,000 people
#7 Montserrat80.3982 per 1,000 people
#8 United States80.0645 per 1,000 people
#9 Netherlands79.5779 per 1,000 people
#10 South Africa77.1862 per 1,000 people
#11 Germany75.9996 per 1,000 people
#12 Canada75.4921 per 1,000 people
#13 Norway71.8639 per 1,000 people
#14 France62.1843 per 1,000 people
#15 Seychelles52.9265 per 1,000 people
#16 Hungary44.9763 per 1,000 people
#17 Estonia43.3601 per 1,000 people
#18 Czech Republic38.2257 per 1,000 people
#19 Italy37.9633 per 1,000 people
#20 Switzerland36.1864 per 1,000 people
#21 Portugal34.3833 per 1,000 people
#22 Slovenia33.6236 per 1,000 people
#23 Poland32.8573 per 1,000 people
#24 Korea, South31.7267 per 1,000 people
#25 Mauritius29.1982 per 1,000 people
#26 Zimbabwe28.8753 per 1,000 people
#27 Lithuania22.8996 per 1,000 people
#28 Spain22.8867 per 1,000 people
#29 Latvia21.921 per 1,000 people
#30 Uruguay21.7017 per 1,000 people
#31 Russia20.5855 per 1,000 people
#32 Ireland20.2376 per 1,000 people
#33 Bulgaria19.9886 per 1,000 people
#34 Japan19.177 per 1,000 people
#35 Romania16.4812 per 1,000 people
#36 Slovakia16.3537 per 1,000 people
#37 Jamaica14.3231 per 1,000 people
#38 Belarus13.1592 per 1,000 people
#39 Mexico12.8406 per 1,000 people
#40 Tunisia12.5634 per 1,000 people
#41 Costa Rica11.9788 per 1,000 people
#42 Ukraine11.7793 per 1,000 people
#43 Hong Kong11.6817 per 1,000 people
#44 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of9.689 per 1,000 people
#45 Greece9.6347 per 1,000 people
#46 Venezuela9.307 per 1,000 people
#47 Thailand8.80422 per 1,000 people
#48 Moldova8.58967 per 1,000 people
#49 Kyrgyzstan7.50486 per 1,000 people
#50 Malaysia6.97921 per 1,000 people
#51 Qatar6.76437 per 1,000 people
#52 Zambia5.27668 per 1,000 people
#53 Colombia4.98654 per 1,000 people
#54 Turkey4.11252 per 1,000 people
#55 Armenia4.03889 per 1,000 people
#56 Georgia3.21338 per 1,000 people
#57 Papua New Guinea2.39711 per 1,000 people
#58 Azerbaijan1.76416 per 1,000 people
#59 India1.63352 per 1,000 people
#60 Yemen




so either we have the highest crime rate (WRONG), or we catch all the criminals and put them in jail (RIGHT). by sheer numbers of population (per capita times population density) that means either:

1) our legal system deals with offenders

or

2) we jail too many people (innocent and not innocent).


your argument/post is MOOT and BS.

that means our legal system works and that we have PENALTIES for crime.

it DOES NOT MEAN OUR CRIME RATE IS HIGHER.

it means OUR PROSECUTION SUCCESS RATE IS HIGHER, and that WE DEAL WITH OUR PROBLEMS.


son, give it up.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric5273
From the encyclopedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_r..._United_States

As of 2004 the United States had the highest percentage of people in prison of any nation. At a rate of incarceration of 726 inmates per 100,000, the United States has the highest reported rate in the world, well ahead of the Russian rate of 532 per 100,000. In 2004, more than 2.1 million Americans, or roughly 1 out of every 138, were in prisons or jails, a figure which represented one third of the world's prison population. To illustrate these figures, if the United States had the same rate of incarceration as Japan or China, only about 100,000 people would be in jail.

So we have less than 5% of the world's total population, but 33% of the world's prison population.
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