Wednesday, January 13, 2010
A Crime Theory Demolished - WSJ.com
Theories are just theories.
Here's one that not working out...
Here's one that not working out...
Heather MacDonald writes in the Wall Street Journal:
"The recession of 2008-09 has undercut one of the most destructive social theories that came out of the 1960s: the idea that the root cause of crime lies in income inequality and social injustice. As the economy started shedding jobs in 2008, criminologists and pundits predicted that crime would shoot up, since poverty, as the "root causes" theory holds, begets criminals. Instead, the opposite happened. Over seven million lost jobs later, crime has plummeted to its lowest level since the early 1960s."
