What this reasoning overlooks, however, is that people old enough to have served two prison sentences for serious crimes rarely commit more than one subsequent crime.

然而，这一推理忽略了一个事实，那就是年纪大到因严重罪行服过两次徒刑的人很少会再犯一次以上的罪行。

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Even under missouri law I can petition the sentencing court to be removed from the registry after having registered (without a subsequent conviction of sexual crime) for ten years.

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Of course, the effect of increased imprisonment could have been delayed, producing a lower crime rate in subsequent years.

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In states and cities where additives were banned outright the subsequent drop off in violent crime was equally dramatic, but where lead was phased out over time criminality tailed off less abruptly.

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