11-09-2009, 06:38 PM
mattkime wrote:
>>The diverse nature of our society may mitigate societal-based controls
i'm not sure if that excuse is still valid.
It's not an 'excuse', just an observation. Typically the 'other countries' that are compared favorably against the US are highly homogeneous nations with a strong cultural bias towards control and a lack of criminality. Nations with a high immigrant population in most cases, relate more to immigration as part of a special relationship with an ex-colony... UK and Hong Kong, France and Algeria, etc. And these nations are seeing problems in their underemployed immigrant populations.
The root cause, of course, is economic. Underemployment, a perceived lack of opportunity, educational limitations, all play a part on encouraging criminality in the non-psychopaths. The psychopaths, of course, need only a trigger.