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Originally Posted by shinerbock
crime would stay low while poverty was low...until some other prompting event occurs which sparks the underlying issues we haven't been able to resolve.
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Not guaranteed. But we would be addressing one of the many correlates of crime, plus improving other aspects of this "powerful industrialized, civilized, economically developed, capitalist nation."
We might not have to wait for a prompting event, however, crime rates do respond to economic shifts, imprisonment rates, demographic shifts, and so forth.