Holy moly! Check out this article in the New York Times reporting on a study that shows today 1 in every 100 Americans are behind bars (the overall number of prisoners has tripled since 1987).
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Jennifer Jacquet is a Ph.D. candidate with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. She works closely with Dr. Daniel Pauly, who coined the term Shifting Baselines, the syndrome on which this blog focuses.
Josh Donlan is a conservation scientist and a Visting Fellow at Cornell University. He often hides out in the backcountry of the Teton Mountains, pondering bygone giant beavers and ground sloths. He also is also the founder and Director of Advanced Conservation Strategies and has a habit of restoring remote islands.
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Shifting Prisoners...
Category: Losing Track
Posted on: February 28, 2008 9:38 AM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet
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When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s it was somewhat common to refer to the "1%". That would be the rebels, the hoods, motorcycle gangs, Black Panthers -- whatever group was being blamed for messing things up for the rest of us.
Now, thanks to modern technology and government for the corporations, we can actually lock up the 1%! I feel safer already.
Posted by: Matt Platte | February 28, 2008 11:26 AM
Matt - the term "one percenter" originally arose from an assertion by the American Motorcyclist Association that it was only 1% of motorcyclists that caused trouble. It didn't refer to 1% of the entire population.
Posted by: Dunc | February 29, 2008 3:09 AM
Think how much safer you'll be when they lock up 30% of population like it is for certain demographics currently...and think how much more safer we'll all be when they get out with what amounts to a Master's Degree in Crime, having learned a few things. On second thought I'd rather not.
Posted by: doug l | March 2, 2008 11:21 AM