Crime and prison population
Date Submitted: 07/18/2004 01:07:54
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 3 pages (913 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 3 pages (913 words)
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…carceration rate for drugs was just 6%, and today it is about 28%. Thus, the decrease in the percentage of violent offenders came mostly with the increase of drug offenders, and this process was fueled by a sensationlized fear of drugs, not violent crime. This means that the electorate is not quite as fooled as Zimmring thinks, and that people quite knowingly went about creating a war on drugs and some of the people who use them.
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