[Longhair_and_Leather]

Something I found at flynnfiles.com:

If crime is caused by poverty, how does one explain the strange case of Michael Pickens? Cornwall, Connecticut police arrested Michael Pickens, son of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, for burglary after finding him hiding inside a fishing store and a cache of store items outside the shop. People are poorer in New Dehli than New York and were poorer during the Great Depression than during the 1970s. The crime rate is higher in New York than New Dehli and the crime rate was higher during the 1970s than during the Great Depression. Poverty is not the cause of crime, though crime can be the cause of poverty.

Your thoughts?

[Smogger]

I think that young men (inevitably the source of most crime, especially violent crime, but also property crime) need to be gainfully employed and/or in school full time.

Idle hands are the devil’s tools.

[x]

It's a downward spiral. Pickens was convicted of securities fraud.

Then it's robbery. Alcohol or drugs may have been involved.

My thoughts?

Next time you catch a burglar coming in through the window, don't be surprised if it's a partner in Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, or AIG.

[Clemenza]

Your argument would hold water were it not for the fact that murder and armed robbery were higher during the 1930s.