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245. The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality | Glenn Loury

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Relationship Between Economic Inequality and Crime

The reporting of offences is also going to differ by social location. Domestic violence, for example, may or may not be reported with the same degree of fidelity across social class and racial identity. The difference in sentencing conditional on the fence may differ by race, disfavoring blacks. In places with high inequality, that's an indication that their upward mobility is truncated in various ways. And as a consequence, they're highly likely to turn to violence and criminality as an alternative means of obtaining status.

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