Crime rate is connected to economic growth rate and growth rate of incomes and wealth inequalities.It is also connected to discrimination by state and it's other wings of power with no or expensive redressal state machinery against such complaints.



The statistical data indicating US disprortionate share of global prison population,if true,to its share of population in world population is foreboding the need of far reaching reforms and a need to appoint congressional or presidential commission to study and diagnose the disease and to suggest remedial measures.



I am of the opinion that the growing disease has its roots to globalisation effects on US economic, social life and the lagging political will to effect necessary constitutional and legal reforms.



But it is for the commission to independently arrive at its conclusions on the basis of objective data to bridge gulf between law and its voluntary compliance by citizen.