Income Inequality 8 Flashcards
Countries with lowest drug use
Japan, Sweden, Finland
Which theories does drug use support
social capital and status hierarchy
There is evidence of…
evidence of a complex relationship, where drug use appears to have a bidirectional causal relationship with incarceration
Australian research on drug use and offending
Australian research shows that there is a strong relationship between drug use prior to offending, being on drugs when committing the first offence, and then even heavier drug use subsequent to first time offending
Relate homicide rates to income inequality
Higher income inequality, the higher homicides and suicide rates in community
Countries with highest homicide rates
USA, Portugal, Finland, Israel,
Countries with lowest homicide rates
Japan, Norway,
Where is Australia in terms of homicide rates
in the middle (below Sweden); quite low in homicides + suicides rates
Which theory does homicide rates support
social capital and status hierarchy
Which theory does suicide rates support
social capital; status hierarchy and neo-materialist
Interestingly, what does not correlate with income inequality
Interestingly, property crime does not correlate with income inequality, but homicides are positively correlated with income inequality
What do homicides appear to be more about
homicides appear to be more about the relationship between the offender [murderer] and the victim
How many offenders were known to the victim
Of the 56.1% of murderers who are convicted, 78.1% are known to the victim, with spouses and acquaintances constituting the majority of murders
Victims are most commonly
acquaintances; wives friends; girlfriends; family
Relate imprisonment rates to income inequality
Higher income inequality, the higher the incarceration rates
