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Is America鈥檚 conviction rate really 99.5%?
Conrad Black has claimed that 99.5% of prosecution cases in America end up in convictions. Is it really this high? We try to estimate how this compares to the number of convictions in other parts of the world.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics around us.
