Jon writes: > ... >In 2005 I visited the court archives of New York State for the >1776-1804 timeframe and was surprised at how few crimes there were. In >some years there was not a single felony in the entire state. Crime was >many orders of magnitude less than it is today. The main things that >seem to have changed are urbanization and contamination of the >environment, because we find similar correlates in other countries. ...
We've also changed the definition of crime by, e.g., "creeping felonization." Many relatively minor crimes have been redefined as Class E felonies. There likely are other such types of inflation which then show up in the modern statistics. -- --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
