• The number of women in prison has doubled in the past five years despite the fact that few pose a risk to the public the vast majority are serving sentences for diddling social security, shoplifting and other types of non-violent crime.

    ECONOMIST: Crime

  • Their accounting shows a 49 percent decline in the homicide rate, and a 75 percent decline of non-fatal violent crime victimization.

    FORBES: Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet

  • The vast majority of prisoners in any country are not violent criminals or dangerous psychopaths, but young men who have committed a non-violent property crime, or got into some relatively minor scrape with the law.

    ECONOMIST: The craze for imprisonment

  • The Trauma Clinic, a non-profit body which treats survivors of violent crime, sees up to 120 patients a month, black and white, 20% more than a year ago.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa

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