Crime and prison population
Title: Crime and prison population
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 913 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Crime and prison population
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 913 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 913 total…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.