[lbo-talk] violent crime up

[joanna]

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>
> I don't think
>_violent_ crime (spousal abuse aside) is nearly as
>high among the affluent classes as among the less
>affluent classes. 
>
We don't really know. Anecdotally, I've heard plenty about abuse in 
well-to-do households. But the violence of the well to do is much less 
visible and much less reported than that of the poor.

Joanna