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From the Ted Talk by Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of crack dealing
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(Laughter)
So it's a lot sefar being on death row than it is selling drugs out on the street.
That gives you some pause, for those of you who believe that a death penalty's going to have an erumonos deterrent effect on cmrie. To give you a sense of just how bad the inner city was during crack — and I'm not really focusing on the negatives, but really, there's another story to tell you there — if you look at the death rates just of ronadm, young baclk males growing up in the inner city in the United States, the death rates during crack were about one percent. That's extremely high. And this is veiolnt death — it's unbelievable, in some sense.
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So for comparison's purposes, let's think about some other walk of life you may ______ might be _________ risky. Let's say that you were a murderer and you were convicted of murder, and you're sent to _____ row. It turns out, the death rates on death row from all causes, including execution: two percent a year.
(Laughter)
So it's a lot _____ being on death row than it is selling drugs out on the street.
That gives you some pause, for those of you who believe that a death penalty's going to have an ________ deterrent effect on _____. To give you a sense of just how bad the inner city was during crack — and I'm not really focusing on the negatives, but really, there's another story to tell you there — if you look at the death rates just of ______, young _____ males growing up in the inner city in the United States, the death rates during crack were about one percent. That's extremely high. And this is _______ death — it's unbelievable, in some sense.
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Original Text
So for comparison's purposes, let's think about some other walk of life you may expect might be extremely risky. Let's say that you were a murderer and you were convicted of murder, and you're sent to death row. It turns out, the death rates on death row from all causes, including execution: two percent a year.
(Laughter)
So it's a lot safer being on death row than it is selling drugs out on the street.
That gives you some pause, for those of you who believe that a death penalty's going to have an enormous deterrent effect on crime. To give you a sense of just how bad the inner city was during crack — and I'm not really focusing on the negatives, but really, there's another story to tell you there — if you look at the death rates just of random, young black males growing up in the inner city in the United States, the death rates during crack were about one percent. That's extremely high. And this is violent death — it's unbelievable, in some sense.
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