Correction to: Journal of Quantitative Criminology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-021-09528-3

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. An error occurred in the Figure 3 (A) and (B) of this article, there was a slight shift in the plot of the y-axis; the Fig. 3A and B should have appeared as shown below.

Fig. 3
figure 3

%Bachelor’s degrees and %high school degrees only on violent crime 1970–2010

The original article has been corrected.