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by mason55 4672 days ago
> The average prison inmate has an IQ of 85. What can you do with that?

A lot of research is now pointing to lead being the cause of a decent amount of crime. Children who grow up exposed to lead have much lower impulse control which ends up being at the root of a lot of crime.

See here[1] for a story on how the murder rate in Jamaica has dropped as a generation grows up without lead paint.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/18/jamaica_lead_...