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> I don’t see how when someone is struggling with poverty that will increase their probability of engaging in violence. Relationships between poverty and viole

> I don’t see how when someone is struggling with poverty that will increase their probability of engaging in violence. Relationships between poverty and violent crime, specifically children growing up in poor households, have been well known for a very long time and the relationship continues to be shown repeatedly. See e.g. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30164-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS2468-2... > I’ve been to impoverished areas of China and it was safer than any place in the US for example. If I had a nickel for every time someone said "I saw something once, so the entire history of collected statistics must be wrong" I'd be very rich. It happens in China too. See for instance https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233034 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... The only real questions are about specific actionable causes and why crime can still go up even when overall average poverty goes down.

TMWNN 4y ago
>Relationships between poverty and violent crime, specifically children growing up in poor households, have been well known for a very long time and the relationship continues to be shown repeatedly. On the other hand, crime went down a lot, across the board, in 2009 despite the recession. <https://newrepublic.com/article/80316/relationship-poverty-crime-rates-economic-conditions https://newrepublic.com/article/80316/relationship-poverty-c...> West Virginia, among the poorest of US states, has a crime rate well below average.
mansion7 4y ago
That explains the high incidence of sexual assault in impoverished communities. "Your honor, I was so broke that I raped someone"
0xdeadfa65 4y ago
Do your links prevent the opposite argument from being made? I have heard more often that crime causes poverty. Also, the specific connection with crime and poverty inequality, not poverty itself.

TMWNN 4y ago

>Relationships between poverty and violent crime, specifically children growing up in poor households, have been well known for a very long time and the relationship continues to be shown repeatedly. On the other hand, crime went down a lot, across the board, in 2009 despite the recession. <https://newrepublic.com/article/80316/relationship-poverty-crime-rates-economic-conditions https://newrepublic.com/article/80316/relationship-poverty-c...> West Virginia, among the poorest of US states, has a crime rate well below average.

mansion7 4y ago

That explains the high incidence of sexual assault in impoverished communities. "Your honor, I was so broke that I raped someone"

0xdeadfa65 4y ago

Do your links prevent the opposite argument from being made? I have heard more often that crime causes poverty. Also, the specific connection with crime and poverty inequality, not poverty itself.