Education Is Inversely Related to Criminality

Part of the beauty of the societies of Scandinavia and most of the rest of the developed world is their understanding of the fact that a well educated populace tends to commit very few crimes.  Sweden, for example, is closing some of its prisons because they don’t have a sufficient number of inmates to justify keeping them open.

We here in the United States understand this principle as well, but we just don’t seem to care.  The building and running of prisons is a huge industry, and, at the same time, we’re hellbent on destroying public education.

Incarceration rates per 100,000 people:

United States: 716

Sweden: 96