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Will Economic Troubles Increase Crime Rate?

By Steven Rodriguez

Financial desperation often leads to desperate acts. In California, an unemployed money manager lost a fortune and killed his family in a tragic murder-suicide. In Ohio, a 90-year-old widow shot herself as deputies arrived to evict her from her home of 38 years. The first wave of violent fallout from the current economic crisis seems to be inward. People under severe financial stress who feel there’s no way out of their problems are taking the ultimate way out. Calls to suicide-prevention hot lines have risen about 20% in the past year with many of the calls about money troubles. Law enforcement specialists fear crime rates will rise next. A tremendous number of people in America feel overwhelmed by debt or threatened by the loss of their home or savings or retirement funds...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).