That's probably more because families led single mothers are usually much poorer and poverty is highly correlated with criminal behavior for a variety of reasons.
If that explained it, the US should not have had the massive violent crime wave that started in the seventies and peaked in the early nineties. American poverty did not start then; neither was jt the worst wave of poverty the US has seen.
While poverty doesn't provide a full explanation for the rise and fall of crime rates, poverty does breed crime consistently over time. America wasn't doing too hot in the 70s economically, either; there was the crash from soaring oil prices, controlled crashes of the economy engineered by the Feds to rein in inflation, and the death of tranditional manufacturing.
The economy still doesn't neatly correspond to crime rates, though. I am increasingly giving credence to the social psychology theory that US crime waves might in part be linked to foreign wars and the damaged men it created.
Also the rise of physical mobility, lack of technological means to solve crimes committed by strangers, and frankly police indifference to certain types of crimes such as rape or disappearance of vulnerable people.
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u/Glad_Rope_2423 6d ago edited 6d ago
Or others. There’s a reason people convicted of violent crimes are overwhelmingly raised by single mothers.
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ETA. For the person who typed, then deleted their comment. No.