> The reason criminals commit crimes is that criminals are dumb and have poor impulse control.
What makes you believe this? Any data to support this claim?
It's inconsistent with the majority of research I've read on the topic but I'm no expert.
What makes you believe this? Any data to support this claim?
It's inconsistent with the majority of research I've read on the topic but I'm no expert.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8095718/ (see "Self-Control as Criminality" although it has a lot of caveats)
The other two are "being a young man" and lead poisoning, which are both versions of being dumb.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016604622...
I didn't say this
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Re the rest. Thanks. I had implicitly assumed we were talking about financial or white collar crimes rather than all crimes. In other words the types of crimes people generally assume that richer people commit (insider training, tax evasion, wage theft, etc.)
I think you are correct in the most general sense of "all crime"