My paper will be about poverty related crimes. Poverty means insufficient availability of basic needs to the humans. And when basic necessities are not fulfilled one is dragged to crime.
I will try to answer that how poverty is related to crime? Poverty is faced by nations as a whole as well as an individual face it alone. Whatever the case may be, but the fact is poverty leads to many problems. Poverty hit nations lack basic infrastructure. Education, Economy, social aspects are too much affected in any nation that is facing poverty. On the other hand, when an individual is hit by poverty, the effects are too far on them. Poverty is one of the reasons of crimes. In many big cities of the world where crime rate is high it is mainly due to the poverty. When one is indulging himself in any bad activity mainly there is a reason behind it and poverty is one among them.
I have chosen this issue because there are many crimes taking place around us now days. Crimes are then taking a shattered society with shattered minds. He basic reason of crimes are poverty. If poverty is reduced the chances are that the crime rate will automatically come down.
There are various surveys conducted worldwide, and it has been established a high rate of relation between crime and poverty. Many experts believe that when the poverty rises it can create frustration, and then that frustration is carried out in the form of crime. When crime increases in any society, it is bad for the development of the society. Insecurity appears and economy suffers. When the economy suffers the society takes a backward step, and thus creating more poor, and the vicious cycle goes on (Fahey, Whelan and Russell, 3). There are two types of crimes that arise due to poverty. One is that type of crime that one’s family is suffering from hunger, and one can’t see this and commit crime, provide food for their family while the form of crime is that when wants necessities and then they are ready to do any bad thing for it to fulfill their needs. Whatever the reason is the fact is that poverty and crime is interrelated.
I have chosen few sources to explain my point of view, and described one of them in detail. There are many cities in the world when there is crime. The studies have been conducted and on the base of these studies it is found out that crime has caused many economies to shut down and narrowing economy leads to unemployment and thus the ultimate result is the poverty. Los Angeles and California are the two cities where such situation arose that the increase of crime was one of the reason of poverty (RAND¸19). So it has been cleared and understood that poverty and crimes are going side by side. If poverty is controlled the crime rate can be controlled and vice versa. Unemployment in any society can also increase the crime rate. Corruption is another form of crime. Corruption also arises when there is a demand for more and thus eventually the crime increases (Abed, 460).
When there is a demand for more there are two ways either to deal with the existing income or to increase the income through unfair means. So corruption erupts. Same is the case with unemployment. In any nation when there is high level of unemployment the economy is at a slow rate, and thus crime rate is at the high rate.
Education is one of the major factors in crime. Educated people have the low tendency towards crime, so if any society is well educated the crime level will be low there but then again the main topic arises that if there is poverty the education cannot be achieved and thus it causes crime. It has been reported that the places where there is inequality; there is a broad line between the rich and poor, between the ones who have something and ones who don’t the chances of crimes are very high. It is a bitter truth that poverty is related to crime and violence is it’s another part.
One of the reasons that have also widely noted down by many experts that the crime arises in a places where there is overpopulated nations. There are places in the world like New York; the crime rates are high not due to unemployment or scarcity of basic needs but due to the overpopulated state.
References:
Abed, George T. Governance, Corruption, and Economic Performance. International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Fahey, Tony, Christopher T. Whelan and Helen Russell. Quality of Life in Ireland: Social Impact of Economic Boom. Springer, 2008.
RAND. Neighborhood Effects on Crime and Youth Violence: The Role of Business Improvement Districts in Los Angeles. Rand Corporation, 2009.
