Poverty, not the ’teenage brain’ account for high rates of teen #crime
▻http://phys.org/news/2015-03-poverty-teenage-brain-account-high.html
This graph shows the age-homicide rate curve by age group at six standard poverty brackets, with crude (light dashed) and polynomial regression(solid) trendlines, California, 1991 to 2012. Credit: SAGE Open
“Within every race and community, adolescents suffer poverty rates two to three times higher than older adults do,” stated study author Mike Males, Senior Research Fellow at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco. “It is astonishing that researchers have compiled decades of theories and claims about teenagers’ supposed risk-taking, impulsiveness, brain deficiencies, and crime-proneness without examining whether these are due to young people’s low socioeconomic status, not young age.”