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The surprising factors driving murder rates: income inequality and respect(2017)

10 points| vivekmgeorge | 4 years ago |theguardian.com

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sul_tasto|4 years ago

Crime rates are affected by the degree of relative poverty in a community. This is not new.

vivekmgeorge|4 years ago

Yes. Not new, but for some the mental exercise to put this idea together seems too hard. The general narrative is that criminals are just random bad ppl!

purplepatrick|4 years ago

Also not new: the outsized impact fragile masculinity has on violence…