I just happened across this post at SomethingAwful in their prison thread and thought it was pretty interesting, so I'm just keeping it for posterity... of myself.
"There is political opposition to asking questions like 'Why do people commit crime?', because the answer- 'In many communities, the best choice for an ambitious hard-working upwardly-mobile youth is organized crime.'- doesn't fit into our national myth of egalitarian upward mobility through hard work. So the very idea of trying to understand social issues at all is demonized and ridiculed."
Peace out.
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