Crime and wages

[joanna bujes]

At 04:31 PM 04/10/2002 -0400, Bruce wrote:
>Higher crime rate linked to low wages and
>unemployment, study finds
>COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study provides some of the best
>evidence to date that low wages and unemployment make
>less-educated men more likely to turn to crime.
>Researchers examined national crime rates between 1979
>and 1997 and found much of the increase in crime
>during that period can be explained by falling wages
>and rising unemployment among men without college
>educations.

Or as Clarence Darrow remarked in "Address to the Prisoners of Cook County 
Jail," there are always more people in prison during the winter than during 
the summer.

Joanna