What is the most likely reason Griscom connected crime to poor living conditions?
A. People who were likely to die young did not worry about the consequences of criminal acts.
B. Living in unsanitary conditions often made people lose their sense of right and wrong.
<u>C. Unhealthy people who could not earn a living were more likely to commit crimes.</u>
D. Being a member of the laboring classes made people more prone to criminal behavior.
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C.) Regulate and control large corporations.
Most importantly, it was to prevent monopoly power from rising.
People enjoying the economic boom, from the post ww1 period bought virtually everything in credit and were in constant credit cycles. They would borrow credit to pay credit, sell and buy in credit, etc until the cycle of borrowing could not be managed any further. Banks lost a lot of money to the unrestricted economy as people could not pay their credits and banks collapsed with depositors money.
One way to describe them is to call them "invasive species" - that is, a species which is non-native to the place (was brought from another place), but which can live and spread very well in that place and which can cause other species to go extinct.
One other example of invasive species are cats.
