Christopher Lewis (Stanford University, Department of Philosophy, Students) has posted Inequality, Incentives, Criminality, and Blame (Legal Theory, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2016) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The disadvantaged have incentives to commit crime, and to develop criminogenic dispositions, that limit the extent to which their co-citizens can blame them for breaking the law. This is true regardless of whether the causes of criminality are mainly “structural” or “cultural.” We need not assume that society as a whole is unjust in order to accept this conclusion. And doing so would neither stigmatize nor otherwise disrespect the disadvantaged.
