{"id":409,"date":"2008-04-24T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/04\/24\/is-texas-33-times-more-democratic-than-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T20:41:37","slug":"is-texas-33-times-more-democratic-than-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/04\/24\/is-texas-33-times-more-democratic-than-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"is texas 3.3 times more democratic than minnesota?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/135-stars.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192678103325979778\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/136-stars.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>there&#8217;s another fine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/23\/us\/23prison.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1\">adam liptak piece<\/a> on punishment in today&#8217;s <em>times. <\/em>as is by now well-documented, these united states have the highest incarceration rate in the world.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>one of the cited lawprofs pointed to <em>democracy <\/em>as the reason for high u.s. incarceration rates. yeesh &#8212; i get the whole &#8220;lack of civil service institutional buffer&#8221; thing, but c&#8217;mon. fortunately, marc mauer pointed out that <em>each<\/em> of these semi-united states have wildly divergent incarceration rates: minnesota (with a rate of 300 per 100k) looks more like sweden (80 per 100k) than like texas (1000 per 100k). would anyone but a carpetbagging dallas stars fan suggest that texas is 3.3 times more democratic than minnesota? or, worse, that texans are 12 times more democratic than swedes? <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there&#8217;s another fine adam liptak piece on punishment in today&#8217;s times. as is by now well-documented, these united states have the highest incarceration rate in the world. one of the cited lawprofs pointed to democracy as the reason for high u.s. incarceration rates. yeesh &#8212; i get the whole &#8220;lack of civil service institutional buffer&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[31523],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prison","tag-prison"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}