Crime and Poverty

If we eliminate poverty then there would be no need for crime? Crime and poverty works hand in hands. As long as the social mobility of a nation or person stays stagnant you’re going to have poverty and crime. Poverty is a disease that can be cure while crime is like a cancer. Here are two problems of the same kind that need to be treated carefully but first you have to eliminate one to get rid of the other. First government have to eliminate poverty from society then work on the cure for crime. To do that the government must first deal with the social ills in society that makes people poor materially and spiritually.

Once this is achieved then there won’t be any need for crime because poverty would be eliminated. Crime feed on poverty and once it’s get rid of you will start seeing a reduction in crime. If someone can’t get a job or education it leave one in despair, confuse and irate. To be idle, poor and have no opportunity is a recipe for disaster. This is where the Don’s and gangs came in. The criminals are there to exploited and offer their support to the venerable by introducing them to crime. This comes in the form drugs, guns or money or some kind of lawlessness. This is very tempting to young people who don’t have anyone to guide them so they see these people as role models.

The poor are always needy hence you have the greedy who will always try to corrupt the poor. This is where social intervention needs to be introducing by government because if that don’t happen crime will take over. No wonder the world is seeing an upsurge in lawlessness. Crime and poverty is not a poor country problem anymore because of lack of social intervention the rich countries are feeling the effect of crime and violence in their cities. The reason for that is because the rich is getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Cost of living is getting higher while wages not going up.

The poor family can’t cope which is head most of the time by a woman. This cause pressure and erosion of the family while standard of life deteriorated. Kids drop out of school or being expel because there is no role model to steer these kids from gangs. Sometimes there are no father figure around to help, mother can’t cope alone, kids are stress out and everyone is fed-up. Social intervention should be available at all time so that these problems could get a nip in the bud from early. The kids are bored so they took up guns or knives and go on the street making mischief’s which turns out to be fatal.

There are too much peer pressure and not enough role model to guide the youths away from crime. That’s what you have kids going out with knife stabbing and killing each others. Some of those youths see a life of crime around them and think it’s acceptable. Most people who do crime come or live in poverty. For example a violent parent’s or someone is being abused from a young age. The fact of the matter is that the government need to do more for people to uplift themselves by having policy in place that will help to alleviate poverty and crime. To break the cycle of crime and poverty everyone will have to plat their part to eliminate scourge.

The government should must eliminate poverty and pave the way for social re-engineering by providing job, good schools, housing and a proper environment for decent living. This will help lift the poor out of poverty and soon there will be no crime. To tackle crime the parents will have to do their job by being good parents and set good example and standard for their kids to follow. Parents should be role model for their children and politicians should set an example by being more transparent in their dealings. Society need all the help they can get from government toward a fair distribution of wealth, eliminate poverty and crime for the betterment of mankind.