Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Most crimes in the world are committed by single, unmarried men

Evidence is strong, however, that marriage reduces violent victimization against women, especially intimate partner violence by men (Lauritsen and Schaum, 2004).

"We may observe that married men are less likely to commit crime or be unemployed than unmarried men."
-"Does marriage reduce crime? A counterfactual approach to within-individual casual effects", Harvard University

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