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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:11AM (#15550247)
Actually, no. A massive amount of crime is either primarily or secondarily driven by economics.

That is, the crime is conducted for direct financial gain (various black markets, theft, burglary, fraud), to defend a criminal enterprise (turf wars), to gain resources to feed some criminal activity (drugs and gambling addictions, especially), or as a consequence of economic marginalisation (people pushed into desperate situations, or engaging in activities on account of those).

(There's also a tremendous amount of white-collar and corporate crime which is never prosecuted, a whole 'nother story. The dumb criminals are the ones who get caught.)

Even various forms of tribalistic / hate crimes are often related (with varying levels of justification, having a floor of zero) to economic perceptions. As are crimes of passion or pride or reputation.

There's not a whole lot of crime that isn't at least arguably connected to some economic motive or dynamic.

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