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From the Ted Talk by Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison

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Okay, you might say. But doesn't this high incarceration rate ______ _______ for our really low crime rate? Crime is down. That's a good thing. Totally, that is a good thing. _____ is down. It dropped precipitously in the '90s and through the 2000s. But according to a committee of academics convened by the ________ Academy of Sciences last year, the relationship between our historically high incarceration rates and our low crime rate is pretty shaky. It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down irrespective of how many _____ people we send to prison.

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  1. young
  2. crime
  3. account
  4. partly
  5. national

Original Text

Okay, you might say. But doesn't this high incarceration rate partly account for our really low crime rate? Crime is down. That's a good thing. Totally, that is a good thing. Crime is down. It dropped precipitously in the '90s and through the 2000s. But according to a committee of academics convened by the National Academy of Sciences last year, the relationship between our historically high incarceration rates and our low crime rate is pretty shaky. It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down irrespective of how many young people we send to prison.

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