Comments on: Imprisonment and Unequal Societies http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php Understand your mind with the science of psychology - Mon, 04 May 2009 10:30:58 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CazT http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php/comment-page-1#comment-19565 CazT Fri, 05 May 2006 08:42:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php#comment-19565 Not really, because crime still takes place within prisons.<br /><br />Now, if everyone was placed in solitary confinement, and tended by automated robots, then there 'might' be no crime. Not really, because crime still takes place within prisons.

Now, if everyone was placed in solitary confinement, and tended by automated robots, then there 'might' be no crime.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php/comment-page-1#comment-19562 Anonymous Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:00:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php#comment-19562 If you lock up all people, crime rates will drop to zero. If you lock up all people, crime rates will drop to zero.

]]> By: bc http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php/comment-page-1#comment-19561 bc Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:56:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php#comment-19561 The US also has much lower non-murder crime rates, which are eclipsed by those in the UK. Which shows, by using your correlation is causation argument, that there are benefits to locking people up for committing crime: it reduces crime. Time to do the same in the UK, I think. The US also has much lower non-murder crime rates, which are eclipsed by those in the UK. Which shows, by using your correlation is causation argument, that there are benefits to locking people up for committing crime: it reduces crime. Time to do the same in the UK, I think.

]]> By: Geoff http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php/comment-page-1#comment-19552 Geoff Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:11:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2006/03/imprisonment-and-unequal-societies.php#comment-19552 So thats like nearly 1% of US population is in jail! So thats like nearly 1% of US population is in jail!

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