INFECTIOUS CRIME
Is it possible to link differences in crime rates to the threat of infectious disease? Pathogens represent a constant threat to human survival, forcing people to alter their defenses to deal with the threat.
These countermeasures, while reducing disease transmission, can also create ideal criminal settings in two ways. To begin with, xenophobia lowers inhibitions against harming and exploiting members of the outgroup.
Second, isolation into in-group factions erodes people's concern for their community's well-being and undermines the community's collective power to prevent crime. The current study looked at the impact of infection rates on crime rates in the United States. Infection rates were found to be a stronger predictor of violent and property crime than other crime factors.
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