{"id":45975,"date":"2012-04-09T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=45975"},"modified":"2012-04-09T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T17:28:15","slug":"comparison-of-imprisonment-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/09\/comparison-of-imprisonment-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Imprisonment Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nortonsoc.tumblr.com\/post\/18855498562\/who-goes-to-prison\" target=\"_blank\">Norton Sociology<\/a> recently posted an image that illustrate differences in rates of imprisonment in a number of countries. Imprisonment rates are influenced by a number of factors &#8212; what is made illegal, how intense law enforcement efforts are, preference for prison time over other options, etc. The U.S. does not compare favorably, with 74.3 per <del>100,000<\/del> 10,000 of our population behind bars (click here for a <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/7yrzlM6mG13_nSUbdXdFmfG36VpFacAZKXWEH5csCHU?feat=directlink\" target=\"_blank\">version you can zoom<\/a> in on, and sorry for the earlier typo!):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/prison-pops.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45976\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/prison-pops.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a close-up of the breakdown of the U.S. prison population:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/us-prison-pop.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45979\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/us-prison-pop-500x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/us-prison-pop-500x170.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/us-prison-pop-1024x348.png 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/us-prison-pop.png 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/urbandemographics.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/assorted-links.html\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Demographics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norton Sociology recently posted an image that illustrate differences in rates of imprisonment in a number of countries. Imprisonment rates are influenced by a number of factors &#8212; what is made illegal, how intense law enforcement efforts are, preference for prison time over other options, etc. The U.S. does not compare favorably, with 74.3 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,1813,1811,1770,1772,1776,1784,1824,1799,1801],"class_list":["post-45975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-nation-brazil","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-china","tag-nation-france","tag-nation-india","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-russia","tag-nation-south-africa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45983,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45975\/revisions\/45983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}