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Crime Rate Puzzle

By: Radley Balko

In this article the author Balco points out ” The more criminals we incarcerate you would think the crime rate would decrease. But in turn

Steve Messner a criminologist at the University of Missouri in St Louis. State in a series of studies…

So… states with a lower incarceration rate saw a decline in crime, was this due to other programs, rehabilitation, etc.?  Sounds like they think the variables were perhaps tampered with to make the stats sound like facts? Just wondering?.