During the current covid-19 pandemic, criminal gangs menace open roads, and hackers demand ransoms as they break into medical facilities, but urban homicides and robberies diminish.
Everything but the federal debt has been identified as a cause of criminal behavior – poverty, affluence, violence in the media, poor diet, cycles of the moon, and so forth.
No single factor or combination of circumstances is sufficient to explain crime causation. So-called risk factors may not be risk factors at all but, instead, serve as incentives not to commit crimes.
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