Search "income inequality crime rates" and there are lots of scholarly articles out there discussing it. Starting with Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Search "income inequality crime rates" and there are lots of scholarly articles out there discussing it. Starting with Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality Daly et al. 2001.[49] found that among U.S States and Canadian Provinces there is a tenfold difference in homicide rates related to inequality.