"[Scholars] argued... poor structural factors—poverty, ethnic heterogeneity, population mobility—cause crime.... Our first lesson is that the relationship between structural factors and crime may be spurious."
Yes. Neighborhood deprivation does not appear to cause violent crime.
Nor does poverty.
Or teen motherhood.
Or a person's mother having them when she was young.
And of course, there are replications of the lack of effect of things like family income, parental unemployment, parental welfare usage
or a parent doing their own criminal offending.
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