Andrew Taylor, a detective writer, provides an interesting insight into the decline of murder and robbery worldwide for The Spectator.

Here's a quote:

"Prosperity is often fingered as the prime suspect, the idea being that the economic boom of the 1990s suppressed many of the conditions in which crime flourishes. It’s a nice theory, but unfortunately it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. You can search in vain for any correlation between national wealth and crime figures. During the Great Depression, when unemployment rose to 25 per cent, the crime rate in many cities went down. When Britain became far richer in the 1960s, crime started to spike. But since the beginning of the economic crash, in 2008, murder rates have continued their downward trend.

"Evidence from the rest of the world further undermines the idea that wealth is killing homicide. In its 2011 Global Study on Homicide, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime confirmed that the murder rate had fallen worldwide during the recession…"

Read the entire article here… it will leave you wondering why we're different here in The Bahamas.