Ignoring the incarceration rate for a moment and considering a simpler issue such as capital punishment. Whether or not to kill someone in retribution for a crime is a moral decision not an economic one. No country I would call civilised currently practices capital punishment. There are some Islamic countries, China, developing world shitholes and the USA.
You can extend that same moral sensibility to many other areas of public policy and perhaps it will have some impact on crime and incarceration rates. Blaming it on economics or racial homogeneity is a huge copout. It is foremost a moral decision.
You can extend that same moral sensibility to many other areas of public policy and perhaps it will have some impact on crime and incarceration rates. Blaming it on economics or racial homogeneity is a huge copout. It is foremost a moral decision.