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It's not "criminal culture" (often used as a dog whistle...), it's poverty culture https://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2010/10/a-culture-of-poverty/648

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• Clewza313 5y ago
  > "If you are a young person living in an environment where violence is frequent and random, the willingness to meet any hint of violence with yet more violence is a shield." Bingo. It's an entirely natural reaction to a violent environment. It's not the cause of the environment though, any more than GIs brawling during R&R caused the Vietnam War.