Kids from poor families don't commit more crime because their families are poor. You can tell this because when the families gain money and have new kids they are just as criminal as their siblings who grew up in poverty.
We can see the true reasons... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25147371/
...why poverty correlates with crime in studies that measure psychology. For instance, in this paper IQ and impulsivity predicted crime while, after controlling for these sorts of variables, parental socio-economic status did not.
Wrt to race... researchgate.net/profile/Joseph…
...rich black neighborhoods have much higher violent crime rates than do poor white neighborhoods.
Moreover, % black of a population predicts crime rates controlling for rates of black education, single parent homes, poverty, education and... newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/m…
...unemployment.
Also... sci-hub.se/10.1007/978-1-…
...It's been shown at the individual level that rich black kids have higher incarceration rates than do poor white kids.
For these reasons, poverty is not a valid explanation of black crime rates. sci-hub.se/http:/link.spr…
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