Frustration-Aggression Theory suggests that alleviating economically generated frustration can reduce violent crime. The present multivariate analysis suggested differences in the amount of welfare assistance to the poor had a relatively strong negative relationship to the variation in reported rates of sexual assault among 142 large American cities.
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