And that means... what exactly?
btw macb, it doesn't help much with Al Quaeda around. Terrorist groups
actually practice "gee, what can I do that's criminal today?", even though
they probably wouldn't phrase it that way.
SW Chris
[View Quote]"aine" <Aine at DeDanaan.com> wrote in message
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U.S. Dept. of Justice Statistics, Prison Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
U.S. trends show our prison populations to be escalating. Most of these are
non-violent criminals, and most are white males, not blacks (as many people
assume).
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U.S. D.O.J., Capital Punishment Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm
U.S. trends show that our capital punishment figures have been on the rise
since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
KCL International Centre for Prison Studies, World Prison Brief (Europe)
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/europe.html
The following numbers represent total inmate populations.
China: 1,427,407 (sentenced prisoners only) at mid-2000 (20th Asian and
Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators)
Russia: 923,765 (at 1.1.2001 (national prison administration))
United States: 1,933,503 (at 31.12.2000 (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics))
Áine
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[View Quote]"macb" <zzzzz> wrote in message news:3be00169 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I think there are a lot of people who now favor the death penalty, who
would
> also be find with life sentences that REALLY meant "life in jail", and
> didn't mean "life in jail, unless you behave well for 10 years or so in
> which case we will let you go".
>
> The problem with some people is that they are pretty well behaved when
kept
> in a room all to themselves. Such people don't wake up in the morning
and
> say to themselves "What criminal activity can I engage in today?". This
> only happens in cartoons. Sometimes I think young people today have a
sort
> of "cartoon" version of what real life is all about. I wish it weren't
so.
>
> Criminals typically see THEMSELVES as victims. This can take on many
forms,
> but the net result is that they use their own self image as a victim to
> justify doing things that are outside the law to compensate for their
> situation, be it out of work, unloved, impoverished, misunderstood, what
> have you. So you let a perfectly well behaved inmate/former mass
murderer
> out of prison after 15 years or so, and chances are, they "injustices" are
> likely to manifest themselves again, and soon.
>
> I think if we could agree that some people just can't be "repaired", there
> would be a good consensus for true life sentences, and the fervor for a
> death penalty would fade.
>
> As for how America compares with Europe on this issue and some others...
my
> next post.
>
>
> "sw chris" <chrisw10 at nckcn.com> wrote in message
> news:3bdf592f$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
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