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Firstly, love this, thank you for making it. However the figure in which normalized crime rates are laid over total incarceration numbers is a little confusing. It seeks to highlight that reduction in crime rates are not correlated with incarceration rates. I think it would do so better by comparing normalized crime to normalized incarceration, as well as extending the timeline to before 1980 to include pre-mass incarceration as a control. Best!

Hi Matt,

In the punitive versus preventive strategy table, in the row "People keep driving around with broken tail lights," the preventive strategy cites an article from KARE11 station: "Police pull drivers over to hand out help, not tickets". As of now (2023-08-16T10:09+00:00), it appears that the entire kare11.com website is down.

An archived version of the article is available at https://archive.is/0qKAd.

Hi @MKorostoff !
We translated this project into Persian/فارسی .
As you told ( #7 ), You'll make us happy to add the link to the readme.
And thank you a lot for your lovely project.❤️

Hi Matt!
As we are translating this content, some misunderstanding may occur for us and we need you to explain about them.
In this issue, I will ask some questions. Hope these questions and answers help us to improve the translation.
Please don't close the issue. I intend to close it after the completion of the translation and resolving ambiguities.

Hi @MKorostoff! We have completed the translation of this project into Persian. Before we promote this webpage in public, we’ve sent it to about 20 people to see it for testing and get feedback.
Most of them had a problem. They thought that the counter of prisoners must reach 2.3 million to finish the context. So they went a little further and thought that a lot of the text would be left and gave up, while on my desktop computer, the content ends at 780,000 prisoners, and on my mobile phone, the finish point is at about 230,000 prisoners.
Some of my friends thought the project was bigger than it actually was, so they procrastinated a bit or postponed the reading of the content.

For example, a friend said:

I read it on the desktop to the point that we reach 600,000 prisoners and I thought I should go to 2.3 million to finish the content. So I gave up and postponed the reading of the rest of the content to another time. Whereas if I knew it would finish at 700,000, I keep it going to the endpoint.

I think it is good to fix this problem in any way. One idea is to add a progress bar that shows how much the reader has come from the main content and how much is left.
Or maybe you suggest and implement another idea to fix this problem.
Actually, the problem is originated from the unconscious thinking of people about the number of prisoners and the counter of prisoners.

Hi Matt,

First of all, thank you for this project.

Using PubPeer, a website for open post-publication peer review, I have noticed some issues related to a paper in the punitive versus preventive strategy table. In the row "There have been a string of break-ins in your neighborhood," the preventive strategy cites this paper under "Deal with poverty": “Hunger makes a thief of any man”: Poverty and crime in British colonial Asia.

It appears that this paper may have some issues, quoting from the paper's discussion thread on PubPeer:

This article corresponds to Chapter 4 of the author's PhD thesis.

In 2019, Wageningen University retracted his PhD degree because of data fabrication and falsification in four chapters of his PhD thesis, chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5. The university will contact the editors of the journals to retract the corresponding articles.

I have reviewed - to the best of my ability, given that the originals are in Dutch - the links in the thread, including the thesis page on Wageningen University's repository, which confirms that the thesis has been retracted.

Given the circumstances, I suggest that you review this paper as well. As things stand, I think it is better to remove the paper from the sources for the project.

Hello Mr Korostoff!
I really love this project! wonderfull!
And I didn't see license file in this project.
Can I fork it and translate into another language?

Hi! @MKorostoff
As we (Me and a teammate) started translating this project into Persian, It will be pleasant for me if you enable translation instructions like 1-pixel-wealth translation instructions.
"I love your project so much"; I needed to restate.

Hi Matt! @MKorostoff
I think it can be a good idea to visualize homelessness data.
I thought about the "Street of homeless people" that people are visualized in a street...

And another question:
Where should we issue ideas and discuss Scope insensitivity?
You said it is your interest and you have an ongoing war on it!
I didn't know that where should I issue the new idea, So I issued it here.

• List of countries by homeless population
• Homelessness in the United States

First off, THIS PROJECT IS AMAZING, thank you very much for producing it. Incredible work.

In the "Try out some policies" section, the directions say "Tap or mouse over a country to reveal its name" but the country names in the bubbles are visible immediately upon scrolling into the section, and tapping on/mousing over them has no effect.

(latest Chrome desktop on Big Sur)

Hi Matt! @MKorostoff
In the Try out some policies section you wrote:

Reduce technical violations for probation and parole by sixty percent.

I read this sentence and thought there is some special act or cultural/educational solution for decreasing technical violations.
But when I read the source section for technical violations, I noticed that you mean we change the law, and no longer after that 60 percent of those violations are not figured as violations anymore.
I think the purpose of the phrase isn't so clear.
Isn't it better to bold the concept of "law-making" instead of "reduce" in that phrase? (by anyway)