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How has crime been going down despite material conditions getting worse? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As we all know here, material conditions have progressively been getting worse and worse. Based on pretty much all political theory, crime rates should also be going up with worse material conditions. But they haven't, in fact, crime rates have been going consistently down for the past 30 or so years. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think that part of it is that the types of crimes people are committing have changed. Like you're less likely to see younger people buying illegal drugs and far more likely to see them shoplifting. You would probably also see a lot of illegal gambling and other "internet crimes" among younger people that I highly doubt are being accurately recorded.