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Criminality and education are not distinct. Better-educated people commit crimes at roughly the same rate, they are just far less likely to be caught. Either the nature of thier crimes does not lend itself to reporting (embezzelment v. bank robbery) or they recieve different treatment by the legal system.

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> "Better-educated people commit crimes at roughly the same rate"

That's a really strong claim IMHO, do you have sources? I would strongly expect that better education is correlated with lower crime rates, and all research and articles I've been able to find so far seem to suggest that:

> Results show that increased college graduation rates corresponds to a significant decrease in the crime rate. A 5% increase in the college graduation rate, for instance, produces an 18.7% reduction in the homicide rate

[1] https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/politics/documents/Gon...

[2] https://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/crime/education-an...

> they are just far less likely to be caught

Perhaps, but I wonder how you get reliable statistics on the demographics of the criminals which don't get caught?

>Better-educated people commit crimes at roughly the same rate,

I'm gonna call bullshit on this.

Even if you assume all demographics are snorting coke and beating their wives equally there are so, so, so many laws you can just trivially comply with by expending a little bit more money and there is so much less incentive for petty crime when you are in a career track where misdemeanors matter.

Tax evasion, child abuse, embezzlement, drug abuse/dealing, drunk driving ... all crimes that can easily go unreported and if are reported result in reduced punishments for those who can afford good lawyers. Look at Rush Limbaugh. Plenty of drug-related criminality there but zero convictions. Will smith just attacked someone on camera but just walked away without even an interview by police. It isn't just the ultra-famous/rich. They are just the best examples of what privilege really means. (And the Russ/Oscars incidents are polar opposites of the political spectrum.)

Re Will Smith - He slapped, once, for insulting his wife. That's not what I would call 'attacking' unless you're trying to sensationalize it.

And this in response to an article on men not standing up for their wives in life!!

> Better-educated people commit crimes at roughly the same rate, they are just far less likely to be caught.

While controlling for income? Or without considering confounders?

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