Boston residents living in some of the city’s most violent neighborhoods say they are cautiously skeptical of Gov. Deval Patrick’s recent statement he is considering initiatives that he said will help ...

Poverty and crime Poverty often drives people to commit crimes as a means of survival. This connection poses serious challenges to society, as poverty often acts as a catalyst for criminal behavior.

For decades, criminologists have pushed the debunked theory that poverty causes crime. The contents of a recent Brookings Institution report suggest that old habits die hard. The report’s authors ...

A Crime Fiction Maestro Returns: In S.A. Cosby’s new book, “King of Ashes,” an investment banker returns home to protect his family from a local gang. Read the review .

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo throw economic theories out the ...

Here & Now 's Scott Tong speaks with our go-to book expert, Traci Thomas of "The Stacks" podcast, about a few of her favorite true-crime books and why the genre is so popular.

Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by America, that’s bound ...

Poverty, Crime and Policy in America. Listen Download open in itunes. ... He is the author of the book Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty. Address 1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way, ...

Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it. This is the thesis of the lauded sociologist Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America.The best ...

Crime during the Great Depression was lower than during the 1960s, a decade of tremendous economic growth and prosperity. In 1960 the black-male homicide rate was 45 per 100,000.