Crime and Poverty

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that crime and poverty seem to be interrelated, especially in the developed countries, where poverty stricken people are driven by their needs to commit crime. The author points out that, though crimes are committed by the rich and the poor, it is the poor people who get punished while crimes against them go unnoticed. The paper stresses that if government policies, discrimination and indifference towards the poor were rectified and corrective social measures such as education, health care and vocational training were actively pursued, the poor people would not be trapped in a vicious cycle of crime and conviction.

Table of Contents:
Thesis
Introduction
Corruption a Global Crime against the Poor
Economic Human Rights Violation
Poverty, Race and Discrimination
Labor Exploitation
Poor Policies
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Government policies have largely been restricted by resource limitations, which means that assistance programs cannot be fully implemented. A UN report states, "Resource constraints have limited the reach of the assistance programs and social discrimination has aggravated the problems in many situations resulting in poverty clearly seen as a violation of human rights." Similarly, some of the major policy initiatives have been detrimental to improving the quality of the poor people's lives. A case in point is the problem faced by the convicted poor people in the US in qualifying for public housing schemes."

Sample of Sources Used:

• 'Rising Crime: A Vicious Circle", Available at, http://www.newint.org/issue154/facts.htmAccessed 3rd December 2005
• US Census Bureau, 'Poverty 2004 Highlights', Available at, http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty04/pov04hi.htmlAccessed Dec 3rd 2005
• Steve Kangas, 'Myth: The Criminal Justice System isin't Biased Against the Poor', Available at , http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-CJSpoor.htm, Accessed Dec 3rd 2005
• UNODC, 'United Nations Convention Against Corruption', Available at, http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crime_convention_corruption.htmlAccessed Dec 3rd 2005
• Stephanie Teggemann, 'Corruption, Poverty and Inequality", Available at http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/corpov.htmAccessed Dec 3rd 2005

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