Mr Khan on 18 December 2012
| zumnupy10 said: Sweeden and Finland in this chart prove how difficult is to reach a conclusion if income inequality really means higher violence rates. Different countries and societies have different reasons for violence to increase or fall. There is no absolute truth about this matter. |
The key is that it has a lot to do with homogeneity. Societies that have a lot of "otherness" whether this is economic, religious, or ethnic, are going to have more violence than countries that don't. Japan, for instance, has rock-bottom gun ownership rates and rock-bottom crime rates, due to a perceived larger degree of homogeneity (although the Japanese like to believe that they're more homogenous than they actually are, but that belief plays a positive rule in minimizing internal strife).
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