A CORRELATION BETWEEN A LOW INCOME AND CRIME

RESEARCH QUESTION
Q.1 whether a low income/poverty or inequality drives violent crime?
Q.2 Either there is a reverse causality between crime and low income/poverty?
Q.3 Is there any correlation between low income/poverty and crime?

Outline for Paper

Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1 Social and Geographic Aspects of Crime: A Review of Theory and Literature
2.2 The Social Geographies of (city name) and (city name) and Overall Trends in Crime
2.3 Theoretical framework
2.3.1 Income distribution and poverty
2.3.2 Demography and employment
2.3.3 Policing, jurisdiction, and violent environment
2.3.4 Region fixed effects
3. Research Methodology
3.1 Data and empirical model
3.2 Data
3.3 Descriptive statistics
3.4 Empirical model
4. Results and Findings
4.1 Results
4.2 Discussions
5. Conclusions
5.1 Recommendations
5.2 Future Research Directions
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