Poverty, not the ‘teenage brain,’ accounts for high rates of teen crime

5 marzo 2015

While many blame the ‘teenage brain’ for high rates of teen crime, violence, and driving incidents, an important factor has been ignored: teenagers as a group suffer much higher average poverty rates than do older adults. A new study finds that teenagers are no more naturally crime-prone than any other group with high poverty rates.
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