PhilGoetz comments on Crime and punishment - Less Wrong

39 Post author: PhilGoetz 24 March 2011 09:53PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2011 11:09:13PM 1 point [-]

Does someone have links to literature on whether inequality causes crime?

There are links all over the place to the effect that the correlation between inequality and violent crime is well attested.

That's why I said "causes" instead of "correlates with".