@article{ref1,
title="Moral Values, Social Trust and Inequality: Can Values Explain Crime?",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="2001",
author="Halpern, D.",
volume="41",
number="2",
pages="236-251",
abstract="Cross-national social attitude data from the World Values Surveys (1981-1983, 1990) were analysed to explore whether values can explain' crime. Mirroring patterns of offending and in contrast to other values, tolerance for a sub-group of materially self-interested attitudes were found to be significantly higher in men, younger people, larger cities, and had increased over time. These self-interested values were also found to be associated with victimization rates at the national level as measured by the International Crime Victimisation Surveys. Multivariate models incorporating self-interested values, economic inequality, social trust and the interaction between these variables explained two-thirds of variance in victimization at the national level. Implications and contrast with the previous literature are discussed.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="10.1093/bjc/41.2.236",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/41.2.236"
}