Does Unusual Weather Cause More Crime?

WASHINGTON -- The idea that there's a relationship between climate change and political instability or warfare is becoming quite a bit more prevalent. But what about crime? Will a changing climate and weather patterns have any impact on murders and robberies? One recent study, which focuses on India is not encouraging.The working paper, by Lakshmi Iyer of the Harvard Business School and Petia Topalova of the International Monetary Fund, actually sets out to answer an entirely different question - whether there's a causal relationship between poverty and crime.read more