The Relationship between Poverty and Crime

From the plight of the Third World to the streets of the city that were flooded severely in the 1980s, the relationship between crime and poverty has become a source of great social explanation. Traditional deviant measures have always existed through relative income disparities in society and throughout the world's history. Poverty and crime, and their relevance are important themes of political and social discourse. There are many differences in opinion in these fields. The prejudice of the old security guards during the occupational police era still uses the connection with poverty as a measure of social bias. At the same time, intellectual social science continues to understand the widespread impact of the social collapse, socialization as violence, other factors, as well as political, economic, and judicial policies on the poor. As a society, the forefront countries, including the United States of America, were able to respond effectively to causes such as the imminent national economic crisis, international terrorism and other social discontent. However, none of these countries can effectively eradicate the plight of poverty and related problems in the field of social turmoil (poverty). This is the reason for the 21st century.

The relationship between poverty and crime is complicated. There is sufficient evidence that poverty is related to criminal activity, but it is unknown whether this relationship is causality or neighborhood, and the higher the poverty level of the city and country, the inevitably the higher the crime rate Become. Perhaps the most powerful example of this empirical reality comes from a simple observation that was done when Lauren Schoen and Marcus Philson introduced their criminal "regular activity theory" decades ago. When poverty and racial disparity in American cities decreased in the 1960s, the crime rate was rising (Cohen and Felson, 1979). Experience from the recession of 2008 to 2012 provides a more recent example. Despite the increasing number of poverty and unemployment over the years, crime has not occurred so remarkably.

Most studies studying poverty, unemployment, and crime relations are investigating the crime rate in the areas of poverty and unemployment and have not investigated the proportion of the poor and / or unemployed who are involved in crime Hmm. The problem of this kind of research is that it can not be understood just by whether the poor and the unemployed have committed a crime. From the information on the characteristics of places where crime is likely to occur, the tendency to derive unfounded inferences about people involved in crime is sometimes called ecological error.

This discussion left us three possible models of relationship between personal or family poverty and crime. The first model assumes that this relationship is direct and causal. In this model, which is reflected in the criminal economic model, not being able to obtain poverty and stable high salary employment in formal labor markets raises the incentive for individual crime to generate income and related benefits. In the second model, we assume that the relationship between poverty and crime is also regulated by other processes, such as the formation of a social attachment to a romantic partner, work, or military. The third model claims that the relevance of poverty and crime is wrong and is the result of prejudice caused by confounders. This model suggests that poverty is related to crime because poverty is related to other criminal features of family and individuals.