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Wolfgang BS: I thought this figure deserved notice (41) RE: BS: I thought this figure deserved notice 06 Nov 08

Could someone say what proportion ... of the one per cent in jail are black? (Fionn)

And what would that percentage tell us? This is a very often quoted but misunderstood statistic.

Males for instance are far too often jailed in comparison to their proportion in the population. The bias here is even much more extreme than the over-representation of blacks in the jails of the USA. What does that percentage tell us?

Wolfgang

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