The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 9th, 1998
Since 1981, crime rates for most major offenses have become much higher in England than in the United States, while the risk of being punished has become much greater here, according to the Justice Department. A department study released this week says that a person committing a serious crime other than murder in the United States rape, robbery, assault, burglary or motor-vehicle theft "is generally more likely than one in England to be caught and convicted." U.S. courts are then more likely to send a convicted offender except murderers and rapists to jail or prison than the courts in Englan...
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