2007-11-26 10:31:18 · 10 answers · asked by euphoria 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
It's hard to get by on almost nothing. When your rent is due, and you can't pay it, then your family could be homeless. A single person can't live on minimum wage, let alone an entire family. You do what you can to make it and survive.
2007-11-26 10:38:30 · answer #1 · answered by Dangerous Dad 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Poverty doesn't cause crime. Poverty becomes an excuse to cause crime. The commission of a crime comes as a matter of choice of the individual. Look at how many live in poverty and how many of those people who DON'T commit crimes. It is far greater than the amount that do so there is no logical argument that poverty causes crime.
2007-11-26 12:16:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people don't have the means to move, so they resort to theft. They could be depressed and start doing drugs, which could also lead to theft. When things get tough, crime happens. There is a movie called Roger and Me by the guy everyone hates, but it's very interesting and I live in that town, and it's been really bad ever since.
2007-11-26 10:35:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not everyone resorts to crime when they're desperate, but there are enough people who do that a measurable increase in property crimes occurs. An honest man might turn to crime to feed his family, even if his value system normally prevents him from it. To the guys above - talk all you want - no one knows what they would do in a such a situation until it's happened to them.
2007-11-26 11:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by Who Else? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well why don't you become impoverished and find out. you get hungry enough you just might be tempted to steal to get food.
other than that most just steal because they are angry that others have more than them (even tho they may have lost their home or money due to bad judgement or even if they lost it through no fault of their own) sometimes they are just greedy for something they don't have the money for so they steal, so there is a lot of reasons people resort to crime,
in fact some do it for the thrill not because they need the money.
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2007-11-27 03:27:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
confident, animals devote suicide. they're able to having thoughts, only as we are. In 2005, 450 sheep jumped from a cliff in Turkey. In 1845, a Newfoundland canine killed himself by ability of throwing himself in the water and drowning. In 2012, a submit to stored in captivity in China refused to consume, ultimately ravenous to death.
2016-12-10 06:40:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of those raised in poverty where never shown how to be respectful to others, or to not steal.
Isn't that why the immigrants keep stealing?
Instead of working and getting a job, they find it easier to take advantage of others.
2007-11-26 10:37:03 · answer #7 · answered by Stars and Stripes 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't. It is, however, a handy excuse to try out on a judge when begging for yet "one more chance". The old, "it's not my fault I'm a thieving dirtbag" defense.The majority of people who grow up poor are not criminals. The ones that are create myths like this one.
2007-11-26 10:51:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't. People like to use that as an excuse. I was poor once, I didn't resort to stealing to get to where I am now, I worked for it and continue to work for it. That's the way I was raised to do it, and, in my opinion, that's the American way.
2007-11-26 10:37:36 · answer #9 · answered by bootedbylibsx2 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
IDK, but isn't it strange that crime was not as rampant during the Great Depression, excepting orginized crime related to alcohol.
Milk, bread, groceries left on the doorsteps, never taken.
2007-11-26 10:36:36 · answer #10 · answered by ed 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋