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America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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255 points paulpauper | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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kovek ◴[25 Jun 25 17:54 UTC] No.44380048[source]▶
This is interesting. I don't know why it's happening. However, this book deserves a mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur... . It shares statistics on how violence has been decreasing throughout the history of humanity.
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1. watwut ◴[25 Jun 25 21:43 UTC] No.44382082[source]▶
20 century features pretty much largest genocides ever. Multiple of them. And in addition, things that we do not count as genocides, but still involved deliberate killing of millions.

That particular book was criticized by historians a lot.

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2. GuB-42 ◴[25 Jun 25 23:34 UTC] No.44382794[source]▶
Maybe that violence is just better organized now. Personal violence is declining (assault, murder, ...), but not organized violence (war, genocide, ...).