America locked up : 'Thinking About Crime'
by Paul Craig Roberts
CounterPunch
12/21/04
In a just published book, 'Thinking About Crime', Michael Tonry, a distinguished American law professor and director of Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology, reports that the US has the highest percentage of its population in prison than any country on earth. The US incarceration rate is as much as 12 times higher than that of European countries. Unless you believe that Americans are more criminally inclined than other humans, what can explain the US incarceration rate being so far outside the international mainstream?
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12212004.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
CounterPunch
12/21/04
In a just published book, 'Thinking About Crime', Michael Tonry, a distinguished American law professor and director of Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology, reports that the US has the highest percentage of its population in prison than any country on earth. The US incarceration rate is as much as 12 times higher than that of European countries. Unless you believe that Americans are more criminally inclined than other humans, what can explain the US incarceration rate being so far outside the international mainstream?
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12212004.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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