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Crime is driven by unavailability of legal opportunities - often manifested by inequality. https://financesonline.com/how-income-inequality-affects-crime-rates

• Dracophoenix 5y ago
  How do you explain shoplifting among celebrities? Winona Ryder, Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan, etc.? Many had the money to pay for what they stole. > The contrast of what is actually available on an upward path is much more preventative of crime vs the marginal discouragement of more punishment below. Or, to put it simply, criminal intent is a cost-benefit analysis. And, despite you're implication, there isn't a particular level of income or lack thereof required to make that calculation.
  • dv_dt 5y ago
    I see them as individual samples of mental health episodes, that are insufficient to buck a larger statistical society wide data.