Poverty Is Down. So Why Is Violent Crime Up?

You’d think that if people are less poor, there’d be less crime. Welcome to the anomaly that has baffled criminal justice experts for a century.

Barry Latzer

Published Oct. 8 2017 12:00AM EDT 

Barry Latzer

blatzer@jjay.cuny.edu

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