Exactly.
Now, imagine if this family has IQ or personality trait consistency that produces crime. I can’t remember this entirely off the top of my head but one study followed one woman and her children over I think four generations or more and the costs were something in the neighborhood of what I want to say is a billion – though I’m sure that’s my memory playing tricks on me. Still just incarceration costs prosecution costs, process costs, policing costs, restitution and insurance costs etc. Add up with 4 kids, 16 kids 32 kids, 64 kids etc. Same with most of the criminal population.
STATS
About .7% of the population is in prison at any one time, and about 3% of the population will have been imprisoned at some point at some point during their lifetime, consisting of an estimated 5% of white men, 7% of Hispanic men, and 32% of black men.[1]
We should recognize that the US prison population is larger, but it’s convictions are not. The higher incarceration rate is due to MUCH LONGER sentences in the US that remove people from circulation for longer period of times, breaking relationships between people that may contribute to recidivism.
1. “Crime & Delinquency” 2014
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