Income inequality, poverty and crime across nations

We examine the relationship between income inequality, poverty, and different types of crime. Our results are consistent with recent research in showing that inequality is unrelated to homicide rates when poverty is controlled. In our multi‐level analyses of the International Crime Victimization Sur...

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Main Author: Pare, Paul-Philippe (Author)
Contributors: Felson, Richard B.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: The British journal of sociology
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 3, Pages: 434-458
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Cross-national criminology
Homicide
ICVS
Income inequality
Poverty
|sIInternational Crime Victimization Survey
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Summary:We examine the relationship between income inequality, poverty, and different types of crime. Our results are consistent with recent research in showing that inequality is unrelated to homicide rates when poverty is controlled. In our multi‐level analyses of the International Crime Victimization Survey we find that inequality is unrelated to assault, robbery, burglary, and theft when poverty is controlled. We argue that there are also theoretical reasons to doubt that the level of income inequality of a country affects the likelihood of criminal behaviour.
ISSN:1468-4446
DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.12083