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Discrimination in the Criminal System

tmann

Posted 1:34 pm, 05/13/2021

Numbers can be manipulated to produce any desired result.

antithesis

Posted 1:17 pm, 05/13/2021

I stumbled across the study from 1903 by accident, and thought that the analogy to modern discrimination claims was pretty amazing! I guess that any demographic can find "proof" of discrimination if they try.

antithesis

Posted 1:16 pm, 05/13/2021

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Bestill

Posted 8:29 am, 05/13/2021

Honestly, I think the lefties came by the discrimination righteously, what with all those bumping elbows at the dinner table.

Bestill

Posted 8:27 am, 05/13/2021

Rightly so! No disrespect to the lefties!

1goddess

Posted 8:05 am, 05/13/2021

I'm offended.

Bestill

Posted 8:01 am, 05/13/2021

LOL!

antithesis

Posted 12:43 am, 05/13/2021

Did you know that about 30% of all convicted criminals are left handed?


And worldwide, the "frequency of left-handers and homicide rate are significantly and positively correlated."


This bias dates back to at least 1903:

In 1903, Lombroso [summarized] ( http://www.jstor.org/stable/25119452) his views on the left-handed of the world. "What is sure," he wrote, "is, that criminals are more often left-handed than honest men, and lunatics are more sensitively left-sided than either of the other two." Left-handers were more than three times as common in criminal populations as they were in everyday life, he found. The prevalence among swindlers was even higher: up to thirty-three per cent were left-handed�in contrast to the four per cent Lombroso found within the normal population.


Yet only about 10% of the population is left handed:


The obvious conclusion is that the police and judicial system unfairly and intentionally target left handed people based on a preconceived and long-term belief that left handed people are more violent, and "more vulnerable to mental diseases like schizophrenia."

There is just no other explanation.
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