do you think that poverty is a contributing cause of crime in some areas?

Question

It's ironic really, people are poor so they feel like they have to deal drugs or steal to get ahead, (and it might be true at $8 an hour), so then they are convicted of a felony which ensures that they will never get a job that requires a background check (anything over $8 an hour) "Do we first: create criminals, then punish them?"
should drug charges exclude people from earning a livable wage

Answer 1

You can say I pretty much grew up in these "some areas" you speak of so I have first-hand experience.

Firstly, in response to Mark D's answer; an evil deed or act can only be evil if someone else is there to consider it evil. Same goes for good deeds and acts. In a world without a God or afterlife or for that matter, an absolute truth or divine moral code, I'm afraid to say that pretty much anything goes as so long as society isn't present to, rightfully so, repress such actions. In the sea of dogmatic ideology, there is a streak of pragmaticism in some basic virtues shared by most which gives such virtues, in my mind, beneficial value to society.

But I'm diverging from the subject. Poverty's relation to crime is undeniable. Bad neighborhood = more crime. There are statistics that prove this and anyone who refuses to accept this fact is, in my opinion, just a stubborn mule.

Now to apply poverty as an excuse for crime is just as ludicrous as saying people would rather wallow in poverty because they are lazy drug dealers and such. As with almost everything, it is not so black and white.

The ghetto churns out criminals by the millions, with 90% of them landing in prison sometime or another. This truly does perpetuate the criminal mentality by impressing the same sort of trapped, "animal in a cage" disposition, especially in non-rehabilitative prisons.

But, as much as Liberals would hate to hear it, there's nothing that can be done. People will be poor; people will find no other practical alternative than crime; people will continue to be imprisoned; people will continue to gripe and moan about the lack of sensativity towards the rehabilitation of prisoners and/or about how their tax dollars continue to be "wasted" on prisoners.

Answer 2

Yes to the poverty thing? Sadness, stress, depression, hatred, and starving, oppression creates crime. And no a felony should not limit a man/woman's salary. That is why we have the laws on rehabilitation otherwise close all prisons and let them go free. Or nuke em. That is a trick bag the government put us in and that is the public's fault for sure. People are so lilly white they are repulsive. They are criminals too they just have not been caught and smarter does not make them less of a criminal. Any charge with the exception of murder and rape should not prohibit anyone from earning a decent wage, if they have served out their sentence. We are suppose to be doing that but we are not enforcing it. First of all good jobs are hard to find and they dont discriminate just for the felon, they do it for sex, race, religion, age, and the hispanic thing is ridiculous as hell, and we buy into it. Employers are ridiculous anyway, they want all and give nothing, and they feel you owe them a living? Just like the politicians they think we owe them a living too,because these dirty rotten politicians praised these employers of big companies and made them gods too. So there you have it. You are not lucky to have a job they are lucky to have you just wait till the fly paper hits the fan and the wheels stop turning and see how they will be begging us?

Answer 3

You can blame crime on so many different things, and make a reasonable jump to a good reason to do a bad thing. Minimum wage only now raise a fraction in the last decade in comparison to what the senate and house vote for themselves each year, sometimes twice. Illegal aliens will probably get even more jobs now, which will lead to less new jobs for the poverty level citizens. Then again, too many of the current workforce expect and take for granted matters that no illegal immigrant assumes. Welfare requires alot of paperwork filed by those who understand the forms and language the least. So places which might lose money to illegal aliens, (such as hospitals) now have employees to fill out their medicade paperwork, while the rest of the people who have private insurance must fill out our own. Then again, money talks. When some illegal aliens are trailed by the Mexican drug gang members, with their special drugs in hand, parents lose every time. Their kids join gangs, get killed, then they have to bury them as well as all the other money they spent on them. There are many jobs the US corporations have outsourced, so there are other nationalities and megacorporations to blame too. The current next generation has become numb to pleasant advertising, and only want ads and music of a violent and aggressive nature. They want instant gratification without achieving any standard or goal. They see two federal agents, (Scully and Mulder) solving an age-long mystery in less than one hour. So now it is also the fault of the real aliens. Ad agencies no long push a good product. Instead they threaten your life is worth nothing unless you have this; with this you are like a God or at least like someone on very good drugs. Nobody like a fella with a social disease, but I could collect SSI. Society is to blame, but more about drugs. Even the medical profession cannot accept how people need to either do their own care, or they need to do as the patient demands. Look, I might have a chronic pain, so I need pain meds. Let say I go to my doctor and say I need them. The doc says, take Advil/Tylenol/ Aspirin/ or some other name brand OTC med. Then he says I need to read up on some type of disorder to get better. I say doc I'm fine, but I have more pain with the older I get. He again refers to the info I need to reasearch. So all the doctors do is to deny that you know your own body, but then tell you to master your own mecial needs. So the medical profession is to blame. So I try to buy it off the street, but I am not aware of how to act. Yep, busted, then a felony. $8 job? I wish. I get $2.75 plus a meal which is overpriced and which comes out of my paycheck if I like it or not. Then again, I better like it because there is a long line of applicants. When you get down to it, you find the upper curst, the social register members, the colonial dames, all have more money than they can spend, but they won't help. They cannot put faith in such Losers. Who is to blame??? Nobody but the person in the mirror.

Answer 4

Absolutely, it's the number one cause of poverty. Just look
at the cities where crime is the highest.
They can hire all the policemen in the world & use every
resourse they have to pay these law officers a salary,
benefits & a pension, but, if people can't afford water, gas
electricity & food, it won't change a thing.
CEO's do not need million dollar salarys or pensions,-
people need to be paid a decent & livable wage.
That would change everything.

Another reason is because parents now have to work 2
jobs just to pay the rent. If they could make enough from just
one job, they could spend more time with their children,
another positive for society.

Answer 5

Poverty creates desperation and desperation often pushes people toward crime. But, I'd still say there are a lot more honest poor people than dishonest ones. I agree with Abe Lincoln when he said, "God must love poor people because he sure makes a lot of 'em."

It's harder to figure out a guy like Ken Lay. Why does a billionaire steal his employee's pensions? Didn't he have enough? He suffered a different kind of poverty. I guess.

It's poetic that he died of a broken heart.

Answer 6

How about their crimes causes their plight and poverty.
A criminal is a criminal he uses being poor as an excuse!



Why would anyone dealing drugs get a real fukn job? They think people that work for their money, are suckers. I worked with a man at Firestone Tire Co.. He and his wife both worked there. They closed the plant in 2000. Right now they are in prison and lost their kids because it was easier to sell dope than work. Not dime bags, 500 lbs at a time they were importing. He laughed at people that were working! Now who's laughing?

Answer 7

properly... a minimum of... it reasons some... in each and all the international... adult males stealing to feed their infants... i think of it is going plenty deeper than purely dealing drugs and turning out to be criminals... it is going into turning out to be poverty and turning out to be an environment that continuities poverty... and that's no coincidence that crime costs normally upward push and drop with poverty costs... and the war on drugs has probable concentrated greater on the undesirable than the prosperous... yet that's purely a symptom of a better basic concern of poverty in maximum situations... and if poverty is one among these super motivator... why is the variety in poverty turning out to be?

Answer 8

Poverty - by an person own overview of it, will say that you are wrong. The reason being is a lot of extremely low income citizens have made successful goals for themselves and accomplished it. In addition, many who are flooded with cash, still resort to criminal activities, including drug sales and use. Its just done in a non-derogatory way in the media, who is responsible for stereotyping such as you mention.

Answer 9

No poverty is not the cause of crime - poor decision making is.
My brother and I grew up in horrible poverty, but we were taught morals and to believe we could get out of poverty if we worked hard enough and wanted it bad enough.
Using poverty, race, social standing or anything else as the cause of crime is avoiding the truth.
It's an excuse to do what they want and not have to take responsibility for their actions.

Answer 10

Yes people in poverty Will steal to try to feed their families No drug charges should not exclude people from making a wage they can live on