From the Occupy Wall Street movement, to Thomas Piketty’s more recent Capital in the Twenty-first Century, the notion of inequality has become increasingly prescient to politicians and the public in general. In new research, Daniel L. Hicks and Joan Hamory Hicks find that one very visible aspect of that inequality, conspicuous consumption by the rich, is associated with higher levels of violent crime. They write that one potential explanation for their findings is that rising inequality could then increase feelings of relative deprivation among those who are unable to succeed legally, and lead them to commit crimes against their neighbors.
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机译：从占领华尔街运动到托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty）在二十一世纪最近的《首都》，不平等的观念在政治家和公众中已经越来越有先见之明。在新的研究中，丹尼尔·希克斯（Daniel L. Hicks）和琼·哈莫里·希克斯（Joan Hamory Hicks）发现，这种不平等现象的一个非常明显的方面，即富人的显着消费，与暴力犯罪水平较高有关。他们写道，对他们的发现的一种可能的解释是，不平等加剧会增加无法合法取得成功的人的相对贫困感，并导致他们对邻居犯下罪行。
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