People with materially comfortable lives are less likely to take risks (crime) that would cost them that comfort. This is elementary.
Decades ago I read a study of young black girls having babies out of wedlock in their late teens. Grim stuff. Easy to pass off as careless and wanton behavior but ... if they waited until 35 their health would be shot, and there was no point in deferring childbearing until having a career because they knew, as with their health, that they didn't have any such opportunities in their future.
"When you ain't got nuthin,
You got nuthin' to lose"
—Bob Dylan
People with materially comfortable lives are less likely to take risks (crime) that would cost them that comfort. This is elementary.
Decades ago I read a study of young black girls having babies out of wedlock in their late teens. Grim stuff. Easy to pass off as careless and wanton behavior but ... if they waited until 35 their health would be shot, and there was no point in deferring childbearing until having a career because they knew, as with their health, that they didn't have any such opportunities in their future.
Poverty grinds people down.