{"id":5198,"date":"2011-03-28T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2011-07-05T19:54:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T18:54:14","slug":"the-relationship-between-income-inequality-and-violent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5198","title":{"rendered":"The relationship between income inequality and violent crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have blogged a number of times about the really important book &#8220;The Spirit Level&#8221; which I reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#TSL\">here<\/a>. The core message of the work can be simply stated: on a whole range of significant  social indicators, countries with less inequality do markedly better  than those with greater inequality.<\/p>\n<p>The arguments in the book are being promoted on a wider and longer-term basis through a charity called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitytrust.org.uk\/\">Equality Trust<\/a>. This week, the Equality Trust released its first quarterly Research Digest &#8211; a  review of what the wider academic literature is saying about income  inequality and its effects.<\/p>\n<p>Issue #1 focuses on the effects of income inequality on violent crime. In brief:<\/p>\n<div>* There is a relationship between inequality and homicide. It has been found in many different settings.<\/div>\n<div>* Research has shown that small reductions in income inequality cause large reductions in homicide.<\/div>\n<div>* This relationship seems to be part of a more generally divisive effect of inequality, which weakens the social fabric.<\/div>\n<p>You can read the digest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitytrust.org.uk\/resources\/publications\/research-digest-1-violent-crime-web\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have blogged a number of times about the really important book &#8220;The Spirit Level&#8221; which I reviewed here. The core message of the work can be simply stated: on a whole range of significant social indicators, countries with less inequality do markedly better than those with greater inequality. The arguments in the book are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-policy","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}