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by zozbot234 1516 days ago
This just goes to prove that anti-social behavior is not a "consequence" of poverty, and that solid social norms are far more relevant. Rich kids can still live in a socially frayed, marginalizing environment.
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If you are you get away, or even ahead, with anti-social behavor. If you are poor you go to jail.
Ding.

"Crime" is a function of poverty in so much as those punished for committing it are poor.