"And if experiencing 'intense or regular poverty' in childhood increases likelihood of criminality later in life, we may actually have achieved the remarkable perversity of having economic policies that create the disadvantage we then spend election campaigns arguing over how best to punish the consequences of."

#JohnCampbell, Poulton, poverty and the real way to get tough on crime

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/30/john-campbell-poulton-poverty-and-the-real-way-to-get-tough-on-crime/

Fucking. This.