“Poverty can lead to high levels of stress that in turn may lead individuals to commit theft, robbery, or other violent acts.”
Taylor, Blake
In life, money is not only a tool for people to measure success, and a person’s personality, but it is also the origin of a number of problems. Money can easily lure people into the abyss of criminal lust, make us lose our humanity, and go against the healthy development of society. In fact, poverty is the root cause of many crimes in the world such as theft, murder, trafficking, and the selling of contraband items.
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To begin with, those who are poor are less likely to have access to advanced education, life skills, and job training. They have a higher chance of being unemployed or underemployed. They are more likely to reside in locations where gangs and drug misuse are prevalent.
Because of the despair, frustration, anger, and hopelessness that such circumstances foster, growing up in such environments increases the risk of engaging in such criminal acts. When given the option of working for minimum pay or making big money distributing drugs, many people chose the latter since it allows them to escape poverty. As a result of these factors, poverty might lead to an increase in criminal activity.
Furthermore, many people who are poor see crime as their only means of escape. When somebody is trying to make ends meet on a daily basis, he or she may turn to illegal activities that appear to be needless. If your children are hungry and you don’t have enough money to feed them, you may resort to shoplifting to provide for your family. You may believe that the only option to escape homelessness is to make money through criminal activities if you are unable to pay your rent.
In addition, happiness and money have been connected in several kinds of research. Individuals who are poor and unable to earn enough to meet their basic needs get frustrated and stressed, leading them to commit crimes of despair.
Poverty creates a specific pattern in a person’s thinking, and he sees no constructive solution to the situation because he wants to make money in the quickest manner possible. Poverty has a big psychological impact on individuals; they feel unhappy and desperate, and so they decide to commit a crime because they don’t know how else to get out of poverty lawfully.
Last but not least, people who are poor have almost no power, therefore those who have a large amount of property will take advantage of them. For example, there are many poor young girls who are tricked into working in illegal prostitution establishments, bars, and restaurants thinking that this is the most leisurely way to earn money for them.
The criminal rich use the poor as a tool to make money for themselves, and when the poor are put in prison, they stay behind the scenes and use their power and money to obliterate all crimes. Most poor people have a short-term vision and are easily deceived into believing in making a lot of money in a short time easily.
Money obviously governs the world, which is why nearly every crime is motivated by a desire to get rich at whatever cost. Offenders frequently do not consider the implications of their actions and the fact that they will have to pay for all they have done later; instead, they are focused on achieving their objective of generating a large sum of money in order to escape poverty and enjoy life.
Overall, I believe that governments can overcome the problem of poverty and growing crime rates by implementing the appropriate policies. Governments should educate and inform citizens about the various legal ways they might generate money in other ethical ways. Poverty crime would not occur if there were more chances and acceptable social conditions for everyone to live and work.
At Project Sprouts, we realize that we can not solve all the problems of poverty in a situation like this. But we can seek to make a difference in the lives of needy children by giving them school supplies and encouraging them to continue their education; we can give them winter coats, boots, and blankets to help them stay warm during the cold winter months.
Project Sprouts would love to have you be a part of our community and help us to help worthy children in North Vietnam. We cannot solve all the world’s problems, but we can do our part to help poor kids grow by giving school supplies, winter coats, boots, and other supplies.
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