More About the Relationship Between Poverty and Crime and Gender

A while back, I mentioned some information that I found in regards to the relationship between poverty and crime and gender. I am assuming that everyone took it with a grain of salt, because it is never right to generalize when speaking about a particular demographic.

Recently, I have heard some of the opinions of my colleagues about this subject and I found the variations between their viewpoints to be rather interesting. When speaking to an associate of mine who was raised in an upper-class family with plenty of financial security, I felt refreshed after hearing his opinion on the subject. This individual obviously had a sense of maturity, as well as reality. He felt that poverty did have a major influence on crime, mentioning that poor living conditions can cause one to feel stressed and hopeless, eventually causing them to make poor lifestyle decisions. He also mentioned that youths who grow up in low-income housing and are exposed to crime on a daily basis begin to see it as a normal part of life. The refreshing part about this conversation is when this person told me that growing up in poverty can be used as a motivational tool, and that it is not uncommon for a strong-minded person to understand the importance of morals. As a result, this person strives to break away from poverty in an honest way.

I also spoke to another associate of mine about how gender is a factor. This person, who happened to be a female, quickly mentioned the unflattering and unsurprising quality of man that we all know about: excessive aggression. This individual failed to mention that this is a generalization, but I continued to listen. She also mentioned that women who are criminals tend to be that way as a result of being negatively affected by men in one form or another.

These two individuals that I spoke to were not psychologists, and they were certainly not experts on the subject. However, I preferred to get the opinions of normal people like myself because my intention was to see how things like experience, bias, and humanity play a role in the forming of one's views.

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