Does crime cause poverty

Answer 1

Answer It can. When people are living in poverty they cannot get the things they need like food, medicine, and clothing and sometimes they get so desperate they will steal to get things they need. Sometimes young people growing up in poverty turn to drug dealing and stealing because they feel there is no other way for them or they have grown up in a home where it was already a way of life. Many times they don't know there are other options for them out there.

Answer 2

No, other way around. Poverty causes crime. If you don't have enough, you feel like there's injustice. Why do others have what you cannot? Once people get bitter enough (or desperate enough because they need food and money to feed and clothe themselves/their families), they commit crimes.