Homelessness, Poverty And Homelessness

Poverty and homelessness are two very distinctive concepts that greatly affect society in multiple ways. More than 45 million people in the United States live below the poverty line and because of this most are often left struggling to make means meet. Did you know that minimum wage is not enough to afford the costs of daily living in any county throughout America? There is an ongoing issue dealing with poverty and many are too pervasive to realize it’s a serious problem at hand. Often times this poverty lead to other things including homelessness. There were a reported 1.3 million children in school who were homelessness for the school year 2012-2013. Whether we want to recognize these problems or not they serve as great example for those …show more content…
Most of the time these individuals are caught clues as to how to attain necessities that they cannot afford. Consequently, more times than not these individuals engage in criminal activity to accomplish these goals and attain materialistic goods. Justice systems have developed a thesis that criminogenic pathologies are a direct result of homelessness and poverty. Colvin states “Unfortunately, many of the thousands of individuals serving jail or prison sentences are doing so as a result of laws that target the homeless population. Over the last few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the arrests of American citizens in general and the homeless/indigent in particular” (Colvin 441). This quotation illustrates the role homeless people play in the vast majority of institutions across America. Larry Colvin intended to inform the general public of the comparison between those homeless and not homeless to percentages in criminal institutions. He validly supports his claim by