Quote from: trailer on March 03, 2024, 09:23:50 PMQuote from: David McKeown on March 03, 2024, 05:33:52 PMQuote from: trailer on March 03, 2024, 01:05:14 PMQuote from: David McKeown on March 03, 2024, 12:00:03 PMQuote from: trailer on March 03, 2024, 08:39:50 AMQuote from: Jell 0 Biafra on March 03, 2024, 04:31:53 AMhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Not really. 7% of the prison population identify as travellers. Only 0.7% of overall population identify as travellers.
Of course you wouldn't expect the prison population to match the general population distribution. There's hundreds of reasons for that. Crime being higher in traditionally impoverished areas being one of the most prevalent.
What are the reasons for the higher crime rate?
Criminology is a very complex area so I dont purport to explain it all. There's plenty of interrelated criminogenic factors, median income, population density, age, gender balance all have major impacts on crime rates, as do other features. For example petty crime has exploded in Northern Ireland since the end of the troubles. There's a large number of reasons for that, but one of the main ones was the availability and trust in police to investigate same. During the troubles there was a disproportionate number of protestant low level criminals but that was reflective of crime reports etc. I cant remember what the most recent figures were but they are much closer.
The point I'm making is that in very few places in the world if any does the prison population match the breakdown of society,
Fair bit of nonsenseQuote from: David McKeown on March 03, 2024, 05:33:52 PMQuote from: trailer on March 03, 2024, 01:05:14 PMQuote from: David McKeown on March 03, 2024, 12:00:03 PMQuote from: trailer on March 03, 2024, 08:39:50 AMQuote from: Jell 0 Biafra on March 03, 2024, 04:31:53 AMhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Not really. 7% of the prison population identify as travellers. Only 0.7% of overall population identify as travellers.
Of course you wouldn't expect the prison population to match the general population distribution. There's hundreds of reasons for that. Crime being higher in traditionally impoverished areas being one of the most prevalent.
What are the reasons for the higher crime rate?
Criminology is a very complex area so I dont purport to explain it all. There's plenty of interrelated criminogenic factors, median income, population density, age, gender balance all have major impacts on crime rates, as do other features. For example petty crime has exploded in Northern Ireland since the end of the troubles. There's a large number of reasons for that, but one of the main ones was the availability and trust in police to investigate same. During the troubles there was a disproportionate number of protestant low level criminals but that was reflective of crime reports etc. I cant remember what the most recent figures were but they are much closer.
The point I'm making is that in very few places in the world if any does the prison population match the breakdown of society,
"Complex" = Go away. Stop asking questions. The judiciary wants you to stop looking at the obvious.
No complex means not something that I as someone who only practices criminal law, hasn't studied criminology since my under grad degree and has very poor written communication skills is going to be able to accurately explain in a short message on a discussion forum.
For example crime increases dramatically in a recession. So do personal injury claims. Is there one reason for this? No there are several.
Crime increases in post conflict society again there's no singular reason but there are plenty of complicated interrelated reasons.
Do harsher sentences act a deterrent? No again differing reasons for that depending on the type of crime.
I see quite often media wishing to boil these issues down into sound bites and over simplify what are actually complex issues.