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Is poverty the mother of crime? Evidence from homicide rates in China

Income inequality is blamed for being the main driver of violent crime by the majority of the literature. However, earlier work on the topic largely neglects the role of poverty and income levels as opposed to income inequality. The current paper uses all court verdicts for homicide cases in China b...

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Autores principales: Dong, Baomin, Egger, Peter H., Guo, Yibei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32422646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233034