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>For someone facing seriously abject poverty, the potential rewards of crime may outweigh the costs

This isn't the case because outside of prison you have upwards mobility. It is easy to escape poverty if you put in the effort. In prison you are stuck there for however long your sentence is.



> It is easy to escape poverty if you put in the effort

I think this is a nontrivial assumption




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