What's up in Greenland? It has such a small population that I doubt it's a hub of crime. Maybe Greenlanders live in poverty?
List of Countries by Incarceration Rate
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#12Has anyone noticed that one of the most populous countries is near the bottom?
Ranked 216 !!
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#13This is a bit biased if one is to interpret the incarceration rate as a form of the amount of crime.
Less developed countries look as if they have very little crime. The issue is the justice system cannot cope with the amount of crime or the crime is simply ignored due to corruption, bribery, etc.
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#14Certainly looks like a biased list. Look at the bottom of the list and most of them are from Africa where you'd know the crime rates are high. May be, they are not 'punishable offenses' or they get let-off easily.
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#15Interesting that Italy is only 139 th but we have prisons close to collapse due to overcrowding.
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#16Has anyone noticed that one of the most populous countries is near the bottom? Ranked 216 !!
Maybe their justice system doesn't work very well.
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#17This is a bit biased if one is to interpret the incarceration rate as a form of the amount of crime. Less developed countries look as if they have very little crime. The issue is the justice system cannot cope with the amount of crime or the crime is simply ignored due to corruption, bribery, etc.
The other thing you are not considering is that incarceration is a business. The company that runs lots of private prisons and detention centers is a major contributor to both political parties.
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#18What's up in Greenland? It has such a small population that I doubt it's a hub of crime. Maybe Greenlanders live in poverty?
I'm not sure but it's also has the highest suicide rate of any country in the world[]. It seems like quite a grim, desolate place to live, perhaps the isolation and constant daytime messes with peoples heads?
[] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
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#19This is a bit biased if one is to interpret the incarceration rate as a form of the amount of crime. Less developed countries look as if they have very little crime. The issue is the justice system cannot cope with the amount of crime or the crime is simply ignored due to corruption, bribery, etc.
It's not about crime, it's specifically about incarceration. The US locks people up for a very long time for very minor crimes (particularly if they're black). There's an industry that requires a steady stream of inmates, and they bribe politicians and judges to provide those inmates.
The true crime doesn't come from the inmates, it comes from the people locking them up.
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#20Certainly looks like a biased list. Look at the bottom of the list and most of them are from Africa where you'd know the crime rates are high. May be, they are not 'punishable offenses' or they get let-off easily.
It's not biased. Those countries may have high crime, but they have low incarceration, which is what this page is about. The story here isn't the corruption in Africa that keeps criminals out of prison, it's the corruption in the US that puts innocents in prison.