Talk:Blue-collar crime

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Why?

why do people commit this kind of crime?

The people who commit this kind of crime are generally poor and don't have a lot of money, so they get desperate I suppose. 76.188.2.195 (talk) 02:48, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

While correlations do seem to exist - people are too eager to look for a problem with an easy and attractive solution. Correlations do not say which is cause and which effect. Is the correct relation unemployed people tend to become criminals or criminals tend to resist the constrictions of normal employment?

Unfortunately, unemployment and certain crime are potentially BOTH outcomes of other underlies causes. For instance an anti-social attitude (not team player or good subordinate) or anger issues might make you both unemployable and impart a tendency toward violent crime.

So actually this is only a common if popular postulate occasionally supported by sketchy social theories. Since no human experiments can be performed to put even the saddest theory to a direct test - social science theories are primarily judged by popular and peer political appeal. (So two camps exist: "pop" science gets more fame and money versus peer approval has aristocratic exclusivity. Neither truly do much to forward social science toward the truth. But at least people are more openly discussing things than in religious confines of the past.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.182.3.3 (talk) 15:46, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Basis for name?

Why is it called Blue Collar Crime? What is the historical basis for the term? AjAxed (talk) 16:15, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]