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« on: November 10, 2008, 09:08:26 AM »

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Crime needs more than black pride

Phillip Adams | November 11, 2008

Article from:  The Australian

EVERY time Muhammad Ali won a fight a strange and welcome phenomenon could be observed in US ghettoes. For at least a few days, from Harlem to Watts, a surge of pride among black youth sent the crime rate to the mat.

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...the US has the largest prison population in the world, at 2.3 million. This is almost a million more than China, which has four times the population. As you read these words, 1 per cent of US adults are doing time; 737 out of every 100,000 Americans are imprisoned, compared with 108 per 100,000 across the border in Canada. Or 163 in Australia, 90 in France and 59 in Norway.


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...Blacks are 10 times more likely to go to prison than whites, four times more than Hispanics. From courtrooms to death row, African-Americans are so overrepresented it becomes a human rights issue.


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And here's where it is reasonable to hope for an Obama effect on angry, alienated black youth. As of last week it is no longer possible for an African-American to say that the situation is hopeless, the deck stacked, the future preordained and constrained by white racism. From log cabin to White House now applies to them.


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Obama's America should revise drug laws, begin the process of decriminalisation. Felons forever denied the right to vote must be re-enfranchised. Addiction must be treated as a public health issue, not as a criminal act. It's time to build more universities than prisons.

But I doubt this will be high on Obama's agenda. To change the American mind on drugs, so addicted to law-and-order sloganeering, will take a very long time. By winning his title fight, the new world heavyweight champion has already struck a blow for sanity. He has not only given hope to black youth. He has removed an excuse.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24631992-7583,00.html

Maybe the lower crime rate is a trend that will continue.

The Chinese leads the world in executions...


Report: China led world executions in 2007
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/15/amnesty.chinacnn/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1554379,00.html

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Amnesty International declares that the true figures were higher; they estimate that China executed between 7,500 and 8,000 people in 2006, estimating to reach the 10,000 landmark by 2008.[3]

The exact numbers of people executed in China is classified as a state secret; occasionally death penalty cases are posted publicly by the judiciary, as in certain high-profile or politically embarrassing cases. One such example was the execution of former State Food and Drug Administration director Zheng Xiaoyu, which was confirmed by both state television and the official Xinhua News Agency[4]. Other media, such as Internet message boards, have become outlets for confirming death penalty cases usually after a sentence has been carried out; such postings are quite distinguishable from others by a big red tick (check mark) near the bottom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China
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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2008, 09:21:14 AM »

Another interesting piece of wiki article...down at the bottom...

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- Capital punishment is applied flexibly to a wide range of crimes, some of which are punishable by death in no other judicial system in the world. Economic crimes such as tax fraud have appeared routinely among the dockets of those receiving the death sentence, as have relatively small-scale drug offenses. Capital punishment is also imposed on inchoate offenses, that is, attempted crimes which are not actually fully carried out, including repeat offenses such as attempted fraud. The recidivistic nature of the offenses, not their seriousness per se, is what is adjudicated to merit the capital sentence.

- Capital punishment in China can be imposed on crimes against national symbols and treasures, such as theft of cultural relics and the killing of pandas.


"recidivistic nature of the offenses" - Does this mean there is no "three strikes" law in China.  No chance for life in prison?

Would 'fraud' include those involved in the mortgage ripoff in the US?
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