Valg, several times now you have made a connection between poverty and crime, and more specifically between wealth disparity as a cause of crime. I willingly admit that you are most probably right (I can't be bothered to research it myself) on this connection. What I am curious about is: Assuming that wealth disparity causes crime, how do you eliminate wealth disparity? Does it take socialistic governments, or does that not work in practice? Have there been specific places in the past where a large amount of wealth disparity was lessened by changes to the underlying structure of the society. For instance, did theoretical country A have a large amount of crime and wealth disparity, undergo a fundamental change in government (revolution or whatever) and the gap lessen over time? I'm more asking if you know of such a place off the top of your head then being lazy and wanting you to research it for me.

As a related(ish) question, do you think that free-market capitalism fundamentally causes wealth disparity, erases wealth disparity, or is neutral toward it?