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Editorials
January 31, 1994 issue

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The article presents information on major developments in the U.S. and other countries as of January 31, 1994. In the U.S. over the past twenty years the overall crime rate has modestly declined, and yet the prison population has soared. While violent crime has risen by 3.5 percent between 1983 and 1992, the number of prisoners. In almost every category, crime in the United States dropped in 1992, the most recent year measured. The great exception is the inner cities. There, the deadly combination of capital flight and regressive, racist drug enforcement policies has bred neighborhoods dependent on the violent underground economy of drugs as well as a tragic generation of young men unified by the experience of prison.

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PRISONERS; VIOLENCE; INNER cities; CRIME; DRUG traffic; UNITED States
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