1. You're linking a random chart out of I have no clue where the fuck from, with zero context or explanation what the chart controls for or doesn't.
2. My random best guess is that the chart suffers from "Swedish rape capital syndrome".
As in, as policing became more effective and reporting more honest people actually started reporting crimes and the state actually had the resources to both investigate and prosecute those crimes.
It's the same reason why for example Germany or France has much higher reported and prosecuted crime rates than.... I don't know... Afghanistan or Colombia.
haha. do you really believe this? the last time someone committed a crime against me, he punched me in the face because he didn't like how i talked to him. abscence of better alternatives? yes, he had no better alternatives to punching me in the face. is that what you're going with?
Again, I already explained the reporting bias.
Now you're just farting anecdotes.
Anecdotes are not data.
By the way about your little property crime and poverty quip.
You do understand that wealth inequality is considered a socioeconomic factor, right?
As the country got wealthier, wealth inequality likely increased, which in turn created a demand for things such as gambling, prostitution, money laundering etc.
I don't think you understand the concept of "socioeconomic factors".
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Oddly.... I don't.
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Yes what?
There could have been a billion different reasons for why he chose to punch you.
I'm not the guy's therapist. I don't know what his story was. Perhaps he had an alcoholic father who was unemployed because he lost a limb in the war and used to beat him as a child, so now as an adult he had temper issues that went unaddressed due to the social stigma attached to mental health problems.
There were half a dozen socio economic factors in that single fucking scenario. There are practically an almost infinite number of possible reasons.
Or you were just being an asshole and he rationally weighed the risks of the legal consequences and resorted to punching you in the face to correct your behavior.
Again. You clearly don't understand what "socioeconomic factors" are.
it's because i didn't respect the age difference between us. one of the most stupid things of korean culture is people demand respect due to their being the elder. i made a point to not address him respectfully because it agitated him in the first place and he just got more agitated as i refused to address him respectfully. it ended with him punching me in the face and then him being wrestled to the ground by security a few seconds later, restrained and handed off to law enforcement.
I don't care about your anecdotes. Nobody does.
It's utterly and 100% irrelevant to this conversation.
This is the last time I'm replying to you because you are literally (and not figuratively) don't understand what you are being told.
Ignorance and stubbornness are helluva combination.
he said nearly all crime, especially violent crime.
one simple observation of violent crime is that it for the most part is not random, it's initiated by a part in a conflict or dispute that feels slighted, whether real or imagined. has absolutely nothing to do with poverty.