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Originally Posted by look 171
Oh, I agree with you 100% that poverty leads to crime. I have seen it first hand since I grew up in a working class neighborhood. Some of the kids that were old enough would go out and steal car radios, hacksaw the chain off at the mall to rip off someone's expensive BMX bike. Oh yeah. Its worst in some of the poorer neighborhood like South Central. Yep, anything that isn't nailed down, doors shout and locked, its gone and don't turn your back on 'em.
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Or could it be that the same sorts of people that are prone criminal activity are prone to poverty?
My own father grew up first in a Kansas farm house with a dirt floor, then a similar farm house in Eastern Washington. My mother in law did the same in Minnesota and, being the oldest kid in a family in which their mother abandoned them, wound up raising her younger siblings on a farm her father did not own. My father in law grew up on a pig farm that the family subsequently lost (it wasn't theirs anyway, they were "share cropping"). Literally "dirt poor", every one of them.
Not a single one of these people ever stole a goddamned thing in their lives.