A lot of citizens believe the lack of resources pushed them in the direction of doing illegal things and committing crimes. For example according to article Women, Crime and Poverty “Pat Car sets out to describe the complexity of these women 's criminal activity by referring to two key concepts, the 'class deal ' and the 'gender deal '. She suggests that the women were marginalized by virtue of class position— having little access to resources which could conceivably alleviate their misfortunates “. In this article Pat Car is stating that it is much harder for you to be successful if you are living in and poverty. Many citizens are unemployed and unable to pay for the things they need so they have to go out and get it a different way cause them to commit crimes. Honestly now that I’m reading this article it explains why there is so much crime going in Louisiana because there is a lot of unemployed …show more content…
Davis states “Counting the persons in jail in the United States, it is found that the quota of the illiterate is nearly or quite eight times as much as the quota from an equal number of persons who can read and write.” In this article I believe Mrs. Davis is stating that the people that are creating the crimes have education and are smart which make them believe that they are capable of committing a crime and getting away with it. Basically Mrs. Davis is saying that schools are breeding houses of crime. Many sources do believe that some citizens take advantage of them having an education and put it to bad use. For example in this article she states “The school impresses upon the pupil the constant necessity of the ideal of good behavior, and the boy in school for many months year acquires this as a habit; it becomes second nature. Of course who has acquired the habit of regulating his conduct by an ideal this habit into the whole range of his life and modify it to an