Citation

Szalavitz M. Sci. Am. 2018; 319(5): 9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Scientific American)

DOI

10.1038/scientificamerican1118-9

PMID

30328814

Abstract

Income inequality can cause all kinds of problems across the economic spectrum—but perhaps the most frightening is homicide. Inequality—the gap between a society's richest and poorest—predicts murder rates better than any other variable, according to Martin Daly, a professor emeritus of psychology at McMaster University in Ontario, who has studied this connection for decades ...

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