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German and American Approaches to Crime and Prisons

TEDx Talks · Talk · 26 min · 2017 · YouTube title: Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool
Why it's here

HN recommends it as a comparison of German rehabilitative prisons with American retributive justice, backed by statistics.

What it covers

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen explains in a TEDx talk why Germany has lower crime and far fewer prisoners than the US, and what American criminal justice could learn from German prisons.