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America’s incarceration rate is in decline

(www.theatlantic.com)
239 points paulpauper | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.265s | 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. mcmoor ◴[26 Jun 25 01:54 UTC] No.44383546[source]▶
I don't know how good that book actually is, but I read acoup blog and it criticizes that book very often. Instead it recommends readers to Azar Gat's War in Human Civilization instead https://www.amazon.com/War-Human-Civilization-Azar-Gat/dp/01...