Poverty And Homelessness: The Morality Of Crime

Poverty and homelessness put people through a very tough situation. Whether morality of their decisions begins to play a smaller role in their lives. When surviving through the night, becomes their only focus for the day. Desperate times call for desperate measures, crime seems to be the only answer. According to the city data, one-fifth of all homeless people have committed a crime to get off the streets. To me, poverty is like homelessness, I compare poverty to people who work on a low pay scale and yet they still have to pay the bills. Poverty pushes people into other things, one of them is crime. Some of the homeless people ask other people for the basic things they require in life. When they don’t get any of these basic needs, they go …show more content…
And of course, in the city we have most of the lower income groups. In many cities in United States, most of the city dwellers are minority races as opposed to rural areas, where they are not, there are a lot of white poor people. There are a lot more police in the city, so we have a lot more people being charged in our cities with crimes than we do anywhere else a longshot percentage. We now understand that this charges are more prevalent inside the city, and in the city, the thirteen percent of this black minority that we have in this country do not make up thirteen percent of the inner city poverty, they make up eighty percent. There is a little bit of eschewing of the number, and when we analyze the statistics of who is being charged and who is in jail. We shouldn’t be surprised statistically that more people are being arrested inside the city and more as a percentage of poverty stricken people inside our city are black. This is not a huge mystery as to why we have a disproportion amount of blacks in jail than we do white. “In United States, black males between the ages of 16 and 36 are about three percent of the population, they commit thirty three percent of all crimes” (“Race and Crime”). The human race are genetically defined just like any other species. Yet black people have higher testosterone levels than their white counterparts, which are correlated to their aggression. …show more content…
In my mind, we are looking at both race and socio economic issues. It is a fact that the system only provide services for people who can pay for the service and leave behind the poor and the minority. When racism is intertwined with poverty, it raises the number of crime for minority races who are poor. I believe that rate of crime in these poor neighborhoods is a double whelming as stated by Moskos that “in terms of violence, drugs, abandonment and despair”, the poor communities eventually is leading. When race is combined with Social and economic condition, it make it almost impossible for a