> Given the incarceration rates...

I don't think you make anything moot by compounding more regional stats. Some countries have more crime, they underinvest in rehabilitation, addiction treatment, and social diversion programmes. Shock horror: jobless, homeless addicts commit crimes. The US also has a land border with long land borders.

That is all to say, comparing apples and margaritas doesn't do what you think it does.

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watwut 7 hours ago | parent [-]

US does not have that much more crime.

	▲	oliwarner 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's tempting to redefine as "crimes that result in prison sentencing", but the more you pick at these scabs, the more international discrepancies you uncover in law, policing, sentencing and statistics. In a way that matters here, I don't believe you are correct, but I cede I haven't the time or machinery to hand to prove it.