Hi David: I am rather found of Chompsky myself. Let me point to a potential flaw in your other wise excellent reasoning (and I mean that in all serriousness, you pose an excellent analisis). The flaw is this, if it were the simple equation you pose than the crime rate would be somewhat constant tied only to the number of people in any society, however crime is affected by a large number of varriables, most tied to alianation and other modes of limits on equality. So, if crime and alianisation is not simply a numeric constant and can be affected by giving a sence of fairness (and sence of fairness is more important than actual fairness as one sees in immagrant populations...) than we can do more by creating some sence of equality than we can through the inflicting of death and terror. So, I think...
Cheers
Larry