Crime | Chapter 1 Preface

Though crimes occur everywhere, high rates of crime—along with joblessness, illegitimacy, and poverty—are concentrated in inner cities. Social scientists therefore look for the causes of crime in the correlations between these social factors.

Like many liberals, Samuel L. Myers, the Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice at the University of Minnesota, maintains that economic factors (such as joblessness and poverty) are the root causes of crime. He argues that the decline of industry in cities and the resultant loss of stable, wellpaying jobs,...

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