Crime in big U.S. cities may be worsened by inflation, researchers find
NEW YORK, April 21 (Xinhua) -- With inflation hitting a 40-year high in the United States, criminologists from the University of Missouri-St. Louis are now finding a link to some higher crime rates in major U.S. cities, Fox News reported on Tuesday.
Their research showed that inflation has driven up so-called "acquisitive crime," a type of crime done for financial gain, for example, robbery, burglary and theft.
So far, crime rates across the country have supported this research. In Orlando, Florida, commercial robberies have doubled so far in 2022 compared to the same time period in 2021. Now, business owners across the state are on edge, the report said.
According to criminologists, inflation has been the motivating factor behind the rising crime rate, said the report.
Crime rates skyrocketed during periods of high inflation for the last half-century in the United States. In the 1970s and through the early 1980s, U.S. inflation rates were picking out at about 15 percent per year, and that was also a period of pretty dramatic crime rises in the country, the report cited the research as saying.
Photos
- Young artist takes up brush to create lifelike paintings expressing mankind and nature’s harmonious co-existence
- Cutton farming in full swing in China's Xinjiang
- Spring scenery along section of Grand Canal in Beijing
- New faces called up for Chinese national women's volleyball team while Zhu Ting missing
Related Stories
- U.S. struggling families face housing dilemma as pandemic aid ends
- US spreads ‘Cold War’ antagonism into G20 to corner Russia, ups pressure against neutrality of China
- Pandemic, poverty drive record homeless death tolls in US
- More U.S. nurses face spike in workplace violence amid pandemic: Daily Mail
- Supply chain backlogs, labor market tightness, elevated input costs continue to pose challenges: U.S. Fed survey
Copyright © 2022 People's Daily Online. All Rights Reserved.