Crime in USA

In the United States there is almost 20 times more armed robberies than in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Japan and New Zealand combined. 67% of the people in American prisons have committed at least one serious crime. Ten years ago there were 5% fewer people in prison. Thus, as demonstrated by a study the Ministry of Justice of the U.S. \ Department of Justice, the United States penitentiary system only punishes people, not rehabilitates them. Statistics show that the more people that are arrested on charges of committing a crime, there is a greater likelihood that he will commit another crime in the future.

Most often the criminals that get out of prison are later convicted of rape or theft. Robbers mostly do not change their criminal trade the possibility of doing so is two times less. Six out of ten prisoners in the U.S. stated that they regularly used alcohol before the crime, two out of ten - has committed a crime while drunk.