For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America's most politically charged questions: Does immigration drive crime?
Poverty even explains a big chunk of white collar crime. It’s so traumatic that those who experience it carry its effects with them even when they make a ton of money and are no longer impoverished. If they never go to therapy to heal, they keep reacting to the world as if they are still living in poverty. To us this looks like greed.