What circumstances led to the rise in crime in the United States in the 1920s?

The Great Depression of the 1920s, or otherwise the deep world economic crisis, played a huge role on American public life in general and the growth of crime in particular. The latter had an extremely detrimental effect on the economic level of the US population: the closure of factories and factories, the constant layoffs of workers, the abolition of social benefits, the lack of a local budget, the decline in income and purchasing power of the general population – the reasons for the growth of criminality in the country.