Date research report presented by Hsieh and Pugh establishes a procedure of meta-analysis to 34 aggregate data studies reporting on violent crime, poverty, and income inequality. The overall study reported a total of 76 zero-order correlation coefficients for all measures of violent crime with either poverty or income inequality- that concludes that poverty and income inequality are each associated with violent crime. Ultimately the authors called for an increase external to homogeneous statistics presented in states or national level occupancies but rather locally and cities.

The Criminal Justice Review (CJR) is a peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is a scholarly journal dedicated to presenting a broad perspective on criminal justice issues within the domestic United States. CJR provides a forum for social scientists to report research findings for informed policy making with reference to crime and justice.

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^{Keywords: Poverty, Low income, Inequality, Violent Crime, Relationship}

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