Why do inequality and deprivation produce high crime and low trust?

Abstract Humans sometimes cooperate to mutual advantage, and sometimes exploit one another. In industrialised societies, the prevalence of exploitation, in the form of crime, is related to the distribution of economic resources: more unequal societies tend to have higher crime, as well as lower soci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benoît De Courson, Daniel Nettle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80897-8