Race and Crime
In their essay "Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification," anthropologists Peter Frost and Henry C. Harpending argue that in the twelfth century residents of Western Europe had a one percent chance of being murdered during their lives, and a one percent of being killed at the scene of crimes they committed, dying in custody, or being executed. By the beginning of the twentieth century many fewer people were murdered in the West. Many fewer were killed by criminal justice systems.Frost and Harpending maintain that lethal justice systems removed crime genes from the gene pools of white people, lowering the crime rates of the white race. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470491501300114 Crime genes are being discovered, despite lingering taboos against looking for them. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29760212 In A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World economics professor at the University of California...