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Has it relative income affect criminal behavior? To answer this question, It needs to relate individual level changes in relative income to changes in criminal behavior.I feel there are two main reasons why relative income may affect an individual's commit crime. The first reason is that according to economy theory, an individual's expected returns to crime increase when being next to rich individuals who have belongings worth steeling. The second reason is that it emphasized that a lower relative income causes feelings of relative deprivation which generates frustration and anger among the poorest individuals since who become relatively poorer. Thus, lower relative incomes may therefore in particular provoke acts of violent crime.Consistent with economic theory, a drop in relative income has a positive and statistically significant effect on the probability to commit property crime. Economists indicated a one standard deviation increase in relative income differences increase an individual's probability of committing property crime by about 9%. The estimate constitutes about 7% of the ( unadjusted) crime gap between individuals with compulsory versus university education. They conclude that the increase is mainly driven by past offenders, persons with low education, and persons below age 40. Thus, it is little evidence that a lower relative income increases violent crime as well as the analysis separates between different income sources. Disposable income is closely related to the economic model of crime since it reflects the true amount of money that people receive in their pocket. Moreover, earnings may also be easier to observe than disposable income and therefore better signal one's position in the income distribution. In any case, this result indicates that redistributive policy may not be an efficient tool to decrease crime caused by inequality.However, I finally conclude that framework only considers financially motivated types of crimes, such as property crime. Thus, the main economic crime categories include any crimes, such as violent and property crime. Violent crime in closely linked to sociological theory when economic theory primarily concerns property crime and influences individual violent behaviors. Thus, relative income can be factor to influence individual crime behavior to be caused in nowadays societies.

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