# Are prison populations affected by capital punishment?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [February 6, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-prison-populations-affected-by-capital-punishment/227860 "2004-02-06T16:37:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-prison-populations-affected-by-capital-punishment/227860/21 "2004-02-12T08:48:50Z")

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> [@monty2\_2001](#):
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> There’s a big reason why USA crime rates are dropping, England’s going up. Gun laws.
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> CHL laws are causing a huge reduction in crimes, while England’s victim disarmament program is causing a massive increase.

Since we’re in Comments, we would require:

(1) Evidence that suggests crime (I presume you mean property-related crime and violent crime) is falling in the US and increasing in the England; and

(2) Evidence that gun laws–or as you specifically allege, _change_ in gun laws–have caused the purported increase/decrease in crime.

Can you provide either?

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