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by mason55 5253 days ago
Search "income inequality crime rates" and there are lots of scholarly articles out there discussing it.

Starting with Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality

Daly et al. 2001.[49] found that among U.S States and Canadian Provinces there is a tenfold difference in homicide rates related to inequality.