What Are Some of the Reasons That Could Help Explain

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Essay

What are some of the reasons that could help explain why the crime rate has dropped so significantly but the prison population has had a more modest reduction?

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Definitions:

Heritability

A measure of how much of the variation in a trait within a population is due to genetic differences among individuals in that population.

Selection Differential

A measure in quantitative genetics that quantifies the difference between the mean phenotype of selected individuals for breeding and the mean phenotype of the general population, driving evolutionary changes.

Response to Selection

The genetic change in populations over generations due to selective pressures favoring advantageous traits.

Reaction Norms

Describes the range of behaviors, phenotypes, or physiological responses of an organism under different environmental conditions.