Crime incidence predicts murder rates, not death penalty or unemployment

Evidence

Murders also occur in the course of bungled armed robberies. Here, too, the incidence of armed robberies predicts homicide rates, whereas the death penalty does not, nor do socioeconomic conditions, such as rate of unemployment. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1957

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1957