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> "Better-educated people commit crimes at roughly the same rate" That's a really strong claim IMHO, do you have sources? I would strongly expect that better e
by franciscop 5y ago
> "Better-educated people commit crimes at roughly the same rate"
That's a really strong claim IMHO, do you have sources? I would strongly expect that better education is correlated with lower crime rates, and all research and articles I've been able to find so far seem to suggest that:
> Results show that increased college graduation rates corresponds to a significant decrease in the crime rate. A 5% increase in the college graduation rate, for instance, produces an 18.7% reduction in the homicide rate
[1] https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/politics/documents/Gonzalez.pdf https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/politics/documents/Gon...
[2] https://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/crime/education-and-crime/4/ https://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/crime/education-an...