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To: JohnM who wrote (107845)4/5/2005 11:17:09 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793958
 
If crowding is the cause of violence, then logically more crowded areas like Hong Kong and Tokyo should have even higher levels of violence than Bergen County New Jersey, but they don't.

So why even waste your time with this argument?

Use real statistics, please.

One real correlation is between race (black and Latino) and violent crime. Another is poverty. Another is illiteracy.

You're a sociologist, you know this stuff. Or are you just slumming?



To: JohnM who wrote (107845)4/5/2005 11:22:53 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 793958
 
I just took another look at the statistics I was citing -- let's see, poor, black or Latino, uneducated, unemployed, high concentration of poverty in an urban setting -- we aren't told anything more than the obvious -- people who live in "the ghetto" are statistically more likely to commit violent crime.

As I understand it, there are no ghettos in Idaho.


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