You can start with incarceration rates, which everyone acknowledges are disproportionately black. But is the justice system biased? Well we can look at victim reports and find that arrests line up well with victim reports of offender race
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One could say that socioeconomic marginalization makes gangs appealing to young people, but this also applies to Hispanics, and they do not have such a high homicide rate. Either way, it's a mix of dysfunctions where one feeds another. Stupid and impulsive people have a difficult
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time being successful in the legitimate economy. So crime is an alternative for them. Both poverty and crime are the causes. It is similar to how stupid and impulsive people have a difficult time organizing a good government to take care of their needs, so the government and the
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population are trapped in an endless cycle of incompetence and lack of accountability.
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We can easily see how crime could cause poverty. Think about how difficult economic activity can be if property rights are not secure. Too much stealing and the stores go out of business. You have to trust people to honor contracts and not stab you.
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The possibility of the inverse causation of poverty causing crime is only reasonably clear for nonviolent crime, but even there a closer analysis of the motivations of criminals reveals that few are just stealing bread to survive.
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Anyway I know you're agreeing, and yes just looking at the poor Hispanic and Asian data demonstrates this.
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(My point is just that the whole concept of poverty causing crime is at least half disingenuous to begin with)
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