RT Article
T1 Income inequality, poverty and crime across nations
JF The British journal of sociology
VO 65
IS 3
SP 434
OP 458
A1 Pare, Paul-Philippe
A2 Felson, Richard B.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/168979299X
AB 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.
K1 Cross-national criminology
K1 Homicide
K1 ICVS
K1 Income inequality
K1 Poverty
K1 |sIInternational Crime Victimization Survey
DO 10.1111/1468-4446.12083