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@animeirl @kallisti
It began in the late 70s, but big policy changes like this take long time to go into effect. But before that you had attempt at rehabilitation, short sentencing and decreasing prison population while crime increasings.

Also I forgot to say that economic inequality since the 90s has only increased and also in 80s you had an economic boom.

@animeirl Yes and I can't say it literally has 0 effect, but I think there are too many inconsistencies for it to be a primary cause.

@animeirl @kallisti
>US criminalizes too much dumb shit

While in some specific cases I would agree, the general answer is no.

>It's utterly failing to do this

Crime in the US has been dropping since the massive incarceration started.

@animeirl again, you see crime and/or social instability which causes economic inequality which can compound into a civil war

@animeirl @kallisti US imprisons more people per capita than any society in human history because it has more criminals per capita than any society in human history and has the resources to lock them up and in the past actively tried to do so.
The primary purpose of prisons is to keep criminals away from society and by that stop them from causing more crime. Everything else is a bonus.

@animeirl If that was the case, you would see it across populations, locations and history and you would see increase in crime during economic recession and decrease during economic upturn, but you don't see it.
However, what you always see is increase in poverty due to increase in lawlessness.

You have a 2 people. Both make $80 a day. Both buy the same items daily. Person A pays $20, person B pays $30 for them. Person A has item/cash stolen every 720 days, person B does every 60 days. Everything else is the same. After 10 years, who is poorer?

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