It’s well known that people with lower incomes commit more crime. Call this the cross-sectional result. But why? One set of explanations suggests that it’s precisely the lack of financial resources that causes crime. Crudely put, maybe poorer people commit crime to get money. Or, poorer people face greater strains–anger, frustration, resentment–which leads them to […]
Do they? Or is that where enforcement is focused?
Exactly. They just get caught/punished more. By design.
Wage theft is more money than all traditional theft combined. Yet we aren’t putting business owners in jail at the same rates.