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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] 9 points 4 months ago

To add to what you mentioned about concentrated poverty is that for many of those people, they are still subject to and victimized by higher rates violent crime than national and even state averages would imply. Crime statistics may not always reflect some of these truths because these communities are not protected by law enforcement and may lead to underreporting