Irritation and pain, headaches, and eye and respiratory issues may cause discomfort which may lead to crime; mental tolerance is lower, therefore inhibition is weakened skewing people into to uncharasitcal criminal behavior

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- Rational Choice Theory
- Psychology

Possible Factors to Causing the Correlation Between Crime and Pollution

- Prevent yourself from giving in to "socially or personally undesirable" impulsies

Impulse Control

-  Emotion and Mood states when heightened can cause people to act irrationally  and commit crimes; for instance, if someone is angrier than usual they may be set off easier and commit a crime

Emotion and Mood States

Herrnstadt, E., &amp; Muehlegger, E. (2015, December 14). Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata. NBER. https://www.nber.org/papers/w21787. 

Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata Citation

It may affect the nervous system, brain chemistry, cause inflammation or may affect the thought process of individuals leading to criminal activity as they are not thinking normally

The Biological Response to Pollution and How it May Cause Crime

If the weather is poor, less people will be out and about therefore there will be less opportunities to commit crimes creating more costs to commit crimes than benefits

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