How does poverty relate to crime?

Answer 1

These are 100% correlated: with increased levels of poverty, many young adults find themselves without a job or legal ways for improving their lives and their families'. They then resort to a life of crime, from pick-pocketing to car stealing to in many cases, joining the ranks of Mexican drug cartels and becoming mules, enforcers and hired assassins.

Answer 2

Poverty influences crime and violence because people with less money will steal items to stay alive and to help themselves feel socially equal. Violence is often associated because people suffering from poverty face more threats and also they are usually not as educated and so violence is okay to them.

Answer 3

They are completely correlated: with increased levels of poverty, many young adults find themselves without a job or legal ways for improving their lives and their families'. They then resort to a life of crime, from pick-pocketing to car stealing and in many cases, joining the ranks of Mexican drug cartels.