Poverty and violence
Using what you have read in your textbook and additional outside research on criminal behavior, complete a one-page paper on what you have learned about poverty and violence.
Textbook: Criminal BehaviorSubtitle: A Psychosocial Approach 11th Edition by Curt R. Barton, Anne M. Bartol
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Sample Solution
Poverty is widely believed to cause violence. The general public treats this notion as a truism, and most academics also accept it as such. Debates among the latter tend to be over which social mechanisms cause poverty to affect violence. But there are other positions to be sure. Poverty has been linked to violence in a number of ways. Most scholars as well as lay persons believe that those who live in poverty more frequently engage in acts of violence as a consequence of conditions that they are subjected to. There is, however, disagreement among scholars about which conditions are important and how and why they lead to violence. These conditions may include poor housing (Stark, 1987), distressed neighborhood (Krivo & Peterson, 1996), and disrupted families (Sampson & Groves, 1989). Living conditions of this sort are ordinarily defined as social structural consequences of poverty.
