Poverty and Crime What causes crime? Does poverty cause crime? Or does crime cause poverty? Some feel that poverty causes crime. Others though, feel that crime rates have nothing to do with poverty and that crime may actually cause poverty. If poverty causes crime than why are crime rates lower in poor third world countries than in wealthy super powers? Robert Rector feels that it is not poverty that causes crime but the anti-poverty programs …showed first 75 words of 860 total…

…showed last 75 words of 860 total…a fair shot at bettering themselves they often turn to crime. Whereas in India you are taught from birth that you do not have the same opportunities as higher class people therefore there is less crime. There are many different perspectives on poverty and crime. In some ways you can see how poverty does cause crime but in other ways you can not find a correlation. It all depends on what perspective you buy into.