Tolja

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This - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215389/Abandoned-parents-betrayed-schools-young-boys-turning-criminal-gangs-protection-sense-belonging.html - is without a doubt the best and most important article printed by any British newspaper in months if not years. And Harriet Sergeant is an exceptional journalist - I have seen other items by her, and she is brave as a steel sword. But I regret to say that I foresaw every word of it before I ever started blogging, and described it in my article about the Tony Blair generation two or three years ago.

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Why not save baduin the trouble and do it yourself? If you know these "other factors that affect both crime rates and incarceration rates", do share them with us. To just assume that your opponent's data or reasoning are flawed, without supplying any of your own, is a fourth-rate arguing tactic.

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And to make statements based on disproven assumptions and then demand other people do the work of Googling for you is a disingenuous tactic.

If baduin wants me to do research for him, he can get in touch with me and I'll provide him with my hourly rate. But this one's a freebie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

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Sorry, but that is not the way it works. If you want to assert your views, you have to assert them. Otherwise it is open to anyone to answer that, whether or not correlation is not causation, correlation in this case (whatever the case may be) certainly is.

It's also rather rude.