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Per Capita Income vs. Property Crime

By seema on Dec 06, 2006
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Time Scale	Data Aggregation
Yearly	Average High Low Total Count Distinct None

Year	Per Capita Income	Year	Total

1974	$4,445.00	1974	117,658,113.0
1975	$4,818.00	1975	119,281,424.0
1976	$5,271.00	1976	118,397,784.6
1977	$5,785.00	1977	119,571,416.0
1978	$6,455.00	1978	118,287,797.0
1979	$7,168.00	1979	119,424,730.6
1980	$7,787.00	1980	112,726,322.5
1981	$8,476.00	1981	114,090,495.2
1982	$8,980.00	1982	108,488,251.2
1983	$9,494.00	1983	100,156,492.8
1984	$10,328.00	1984	94,141,340.0
1985	$11,013.00	1985	91,695,909.6
1986	$11,670.00	1986	89,497,569.1
1987	$12,391.00	1987	91,972,904.4
1988	$13,123.00	1988	92,518,421.6
1989	$14,056.00	1989	92,162,214.6
1990	$14,387.00	1990	87,093,464.7
1991	$14,617.00	1991	89,479,379.7
1992	$14,847.00	1992	83,444,004.2
1993	$15,777.00	1993	82,888,169.1
1994	$16,555.00	1994	81,621,685.2
1995	$17,227.00	1995	77,353,759.0
1996	$18,136.00	1996	71,766,561.6
1997	$19,241.00	1997	67,698,250.1
1998	$20,120.00	1998	59,970,659.6
1999	$21,239.00	1999	55,249,920.0
2000	$22,346.00	2000	50,258,395.2
2002	$22,794.00	2002	45,782,619.0
2001	$22,851.00	2001	47,583,523.8
2003	$23,276.00	2003	47,456,764.8
2004	$23,848.00	2004	47,307,820.5
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Sources: www.census.gov and Bureau of Justice Statistics

Comments (10)

Clint Barton says

More likely, property crime has gone down because we're actually putting criminals in prison and keeping them there.

Is it possible to compare prison population to crime rates?

posted about 1 year ago

Purple says

What may also be missing in this graph is data about wealth distribution.

posted about 1 year ago

paanta says

I could just as easily show a graph with property crime vs. cigarette smoking and draw the same sort of conclusion. Or Internet use. Or population density. Or average household size. Or average size of a frosty at Wendy's.

posted about 1 year ago

Nikita Bernstein says

Interesting. I recently write an article that looked at violence vs. income-distribution in the context of racism. Seems very relevant.

Article can be found here:

http://nikitab.newsvine.com...

posted about 1 year ago

Levi says

Er, isn't there data from before the 70s? I thought crime peaked in the 70s sometime? This chart may be misleading in that sense.

Freakonomics, if I recall, drew a causal link between abortion legality and property crime, that making abortion legal reduced the amount of crime.

posted about 1 year ago

Levi says

Er, isn't there data from before the 70s? I thought crime peaked in the 70s sometime? This chart may be misleading in that sense.

Freakonomics, if I recall, drew a causal link between abortion legality and property crime, that making abortion legal reduced the amount of crime.

posted about 1 year ago

Lolli says

Us crime rate peaked in 1992. After that criminals were just not born in the first place, because of the introduction of abortion laws (Freakonomics). The theory is widely supported by the data and apparently holds also with data from Romania.

posted about 1 year ago

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posted about 1 year ago

jmatthews

jmatthews says

Clint,
I am an adjunct professor at a college in Chicago and we decided to run a simple regression analysis between crime rates and prison population. Our research indicates a strong correlation between the two; therefore, we believe you are on to something.

Econ 441 Microeconomics Westwood College.

posted 9 months ago

agraciadajen

agraciadajen says

Lolli...what the heck? That is the most ridiculous conclusion I have EVER heard of. To say that crime went down b/c "criminals" were killed b/f they had the chance to commit th crime is very narrow minded. I'd look for other possibilities.

posted 4 months ago