Song, Zhe; Yan, Taihua; Jiang, Tangyang - In: Journal of applied economics 23 (2020) 1, pp. 679-708
This paper aims to understand whether and how poverty aversion and inequality aversion affect the criminal behaviors …. Inequality significantly increases crime, while the poverty reduction does not reduce crime. 2. The widening consumption gap … excessive consumption difference between the rich and ordinary people may lead to crime. 4. The increasing inequality of …