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kyburgConsidering the source again - wish like hell I had a Reuters link for this story - and some other, older data to compare it against:
The incarceration rate for veterans is 630 per 100,000, compared to 1,390 per 100,000 for nonveterans.
The study found that veterans in prison were older, more educated, more likely to have been married and more likely than nonveterans to be incarcerated for violent crimes or offenses against women or children. (Emphasis mine.)
If you're a veteran, and in the pokey - you're more than twice as likely to be there for a violent, sex-related offense against women or children than someone who didn't serve. And they don't know why - even though the trend is present also in military prisons.
But the important part is "I don't want people to come away from this thinking veterans are crazed sex offenders," Noonan said. "I want them to understand that veterans are less likely to be in prison in the first place." Given.
UH. If I was a good little girl, looking to keep herself out of trouble (because if something, uh, Happened, it would be my fault for being so gullible/stupid/etc.) - with this kind of information, I don't think I'd be in a hurry to be alone with a group of veterans. And I love how the default for "veteran in jail" is "male."
If that isn't sucktastic, I don't know what is. (Hey, anyone got the figures on the conversion rate of servicepeople who go into law enforcement after the finish their hitch with the military is?)
*sigh*
The incarceration rate for veterans is 630 per 100,000, compared to 1,390 per 100,000 for nonveterans.
The study found that veterans in prison were older, more educated, more likely to have been married and more likely than nonveterans to be incarcerated for violent crimes or offenses against women or children. (Emphasis mine.)
If you're a veteran, and in the pokey - you're more than twice as likely to be there for a violent, sex-related offense against women or children than someone who didn't serve. And they don't know why - even though the trend is present also in military prisons.
But the important part is "I don't want people to come away from this thinking veterans are crazed sex offenders," Noonan said. "I want them to understand that veterans are less likely to be in prison in the first place." Given.
UH. If I was a good little girl, looking to keep herself out of trouble (because if something, uh, Happened, it would be my fault for being so gullible/stupid/etc.) - with this kind of information, I don't think I'd be in a hurry to be alone with a group of veterans. And I love how the default for "veteran in jail" is "male."
If that isn't sucktastic, I don't know what is. (Hey, anyone got the figures on the conversion rate of servicepeople who go into law enforcement after the finish their hitch with the military is?)
*sigh*
