Causes of crime 1

As there is a conference investigating the drivers of crime taking place in Wellington tomorrow I will do a couple of posts that might assist;



Along the bottom axis are US states. Their respective violent teen crime rates (left axis) and single parent rates (right axis) are then plotted showing a correlation. The rapid growth of single parent families is the result of state subsidy. Driver of crime? Welfare.

(Source of chart - Heritage Foundation/ Travis Snyder:Welfare;History, Results and Reform)