The Costs of Crime: Unemployment and Poverty Available to Purchase

The tremendous and highly complex industrial development which went on with ever‐accelerating rapidity during the latter half of the nineteenth century brought the USA face‐to‐face at the beginning of the twentieth century with the very serious social problem of crime. This article examines whether there was any relationship at all between crime, unemployment and sales of alcohol and, if there was a relationship, whether the two domains shared two, as opposed to only one dimension and what the pattern of relationships were relating variables in one domain with those in the other.