The best numbers available, controlling for a host of challenging statistical problems, suggest that the growth in prison populations contributed to up to 30 percent of the crime drop during the 1990s.

For the rest of the article, click here. Some other interesting claims are made. What do you think?

This is from the same source slate.com that earlier wrote that abortion reduces crime.

Being like Europe has never been high on my priority list.

Isn't mythbusting in public like a misdemeanor or something? Or do you just have to be reckless as to whether there's a third person that might be offended.

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Originally posted by David Newell:
Isn't mythbusting in public like a misdemeanor or something? Or do you just have to be reckless as to whether there's a third person that might be offended.

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It's a high crime AND misdemeanor.