I'd say a simple way of cutting through all this chart analysing and just show how many poor whites in American commited crime X, and how many poor non-whites committed crime X, controlling for income, with simple bars
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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