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Richard Stallman

The UK government wants stores to use facial-recognition cameras to recognize suspected thieves: theguardian.com/technology/202 Perhaps there would be fewer thieves if the government had not driven so many into penury.

The GuardianHome Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shopliftingBy Mark Townsend
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jtb

@rms In the past poverty did not automatically lead to crime. What has changed? Why are people no longer responsible for their own actions? (Not that I have ever voted Tory, I am just saying).

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novibe

@jtb @rms poverty alone has never been a driver of crime. But inequality has ALWAYS been a driver o crime. This is not new. This has always been the case. We have science showing this.

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novibe

@jtb @rms I don’t think I need to Google for you, but here’s a couple of studies:
mdpi.com/2227-7099/11/2/62#:~: and journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

MDPIThe Nexus between Crime Rates, Poverty, and Income Inequality: A Case Study of IndonesiaThis study examines whether income inequality and poverty are determinants of crime rates across 34 provinces in Indonesia. Three indicators of income inequality and four poverty measures are tested to examine whether the dimension and degree of unequal welfare distribution are linked to crime occurrences. We use panel data from 2010 to 2019 with the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) approach. The findings indicate that higher income levels and wider income inequality are associated with higher crime rates. Our first indicator of income inequality, non-food expenditure, has a larger impact on crime rates than our second and third indicators, i.e., the gap in food expenditure and the Gini ratio. Poverty is also positively associated with crime. The wider the poverty gap (a measure of poverty) and the severity index, the higher the deprivation levels among the poor, which lead to more crime. The significant and positive effect of poverty on crime rates, and the positive nexus between crime, income, and inequality suggest that Indonesia will face a higher crime risk as the country becomes increasingly more affluent. In such a scenario, policymakers can leverage education and investment (domestic and foreign) to minimize the crime rate. The government could also strengthen crime prevention programs, crime settlement systems, and policing in Indonesia, and raise the budget for social assistance.
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Richard Stallman

@novibe I was interested in your statement about scientific evidence that inequality causes more crime. I tried to fetch the two articles you cited, but each one said I'd have to enable Javascript (i.e. run nonfree software on my computer) to access the article. So I can't access them.

Do you know of any pertinent articles that are accessible in the Free World? Or copies that are accessible without running nonfree software?

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