他们的基本评论为：监狱的存在无法降低犯罪率，它只能引发重犯。

Their basic criticism was that prisons do not reduce the crime rate, they cause recidivism.

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他们的方法足够灵活，原则上可以纳入其他重要的生活质量变化，如减少污染物排放总量、降低犯罪率。

Their approach is flexible enough that in principle other important quality-of-life changes could be incorporated—for example, decreases in total emissions of pollutants and declines in crime rates.

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这有利于降低犯罪率，有利于提高人民幸福程度，有利于抑制人们最强烈的冲动。

This has led to a decrease in crime rates, an increase in the population's happiness, and has purportedly helped people to rise above their worst impulses.

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How many know about the studies that cheerful example that yoga practice diminishes significantly, more than any other interventions that they tried, the likelihood of second-time offenders when they practice it in jail?

有多少人知道下面这个让人欣慰的案例,瑜伽练习，比任何试过的干预措施都有效，犯人在监狱里练瑜伽,会降低他们的二次犯罪率？

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