Well there seems to be a lot of anti-social tendencies in the US judging from the number of incarcerated individuals.

Perhaps there are mechanics in place that goes a bit deeper?

Are humans born stictly social or anti-social, and will anything accentuate these effects in the life of an individual?

Research is quite clear on this matter I believe, but of course there will always be exceptions.

The comparison is of course only an illustration that suggests the question: It is the right allocation of resources to support incarceration and all that it entails, or should that resource be re-balanced to suffocate the causes of crime? Hint: It is nearly always poverty. That an Ivy league school is utterly out of reach for the average inmate throws in the stark contrast the fact that the State somehow manages to find the same amount of money per head for incarceration.

The question is which cycle to you, as a society, want to feed? That is the one that will grow. Reference to the "Nordic" experience shows what a long-term shift in focus looks like.