As unemployment rises, crime rates decline?
Most people think that crime rate is strongly related to unemployment rate (see Google results incl. academic articles: http://www.google.com/search?q=unemployment+crime). Is it so? By looking at a chart of Good it can be inferred easily that there is not a positive correlation for the last four years (starting from 2006 through 2009). What’s more, there is a clear negative correlation in these years. What is going on then?
