For Violent Crime in 2011, it ranked 46th of the 50 states. Property Crime was 43rd.
The Federal & State Incarceration Rate was 13th, and general funds spending on corrections (2008), it was ranked 11th highest.
Sometimes Europeans are alarmed by the high US incarceration rates, with our 700-800 per 100,000 over twice most other countries. If you want your eyes to just pop out of your head though look at the state by state numbers. (The US is a big place, and all social trends are not perfectly distributed.) Louisiana incarcerates over 1400 of its 100,000, four to fourteen times most other countries. The one thing you can say for Louisiana, though, is that it also has over double the national murder rate. So maybe it has other endemic problems that are running both numbers up simultaneously.
Virginia's up there in incarceration with 900-1000 per 100k, but it doesn't have the violent crime stats that could even attempt to excuse it. It has below average homicide and violent crime rates.
It's a high incarceration state for no damn reason.
For Violent Crime in 2011, it ranked 46th of the 50 states. Property Crime was 43rd.
The Federal & State Incarceration Rate was 13th, and general funds spending on corrections (2008), it was ranked 11th highest.
Sometimes Europeans are alarmed by the high US incarceration rates, with our 700-800 per 100,000 over twice most other countries. If you want your eyes to just pop out of your head though look at the state by state numbers. (The US is a big place, and all social trends are not perfectly distributed.) Louisiana incarcerates over 1400 of its 100,000, four to fourteen times most other countries. The one thing you can say for Louisiana, though, is that it also has over double the national murder rate. So maybe it has other endemic problems that are running both numbers up simultaneously.
Virginia's up there in incarceration with 900-1000 per 100k, but it doesn't have the violent crime stats that could even attempt to excuse it. It has below average homicide and violent crime rates.
It's a high incarceration state for no damn reason.
Some resources:
http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents...
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Louisiana
http://www.vsp.state.va.us/Crime_in_Virginia.shtm