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"The Real Murder Mystery? It?s the Low Crime Rate"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this great article from the weekend's Week in Review in the New York Times.  Here are just a few snippets from a great read: Maybe it is time to call in one of those clairvoyants who help detectives solve the case. Because no one else can explain what criminals have been doing in the first half of 2009.... No single lens ? sociological, econometrical, liberal or conservative ? seems an adequate one through which to view crime.  The economy, which seems as if it should be fundamental, has never been a good predictor; the Prohibition era was far more violent than the Great Depression.  Adding prison beds has not helped; the incarceration rate has marched grimly upward for decades, while the crime rate has zigzagged up and down, seemingly oblivious...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).