Poverty & Crime in the UK
There is a link between poverty and crime; this is one of the very big problem nowadays in the UK. There is a video clips about riots in the streets in London and in other places and it is all over the news. They stand against the law and against the police and they destroy the shops and the cars in the streets and they burgle the houses; because they are poor people they do not care about other people and they do not have any thing to lose. According to Harney (2011) "Poverty and crime may need to be addressed by state intervention but not by the same means. Society needs to address slums and homelessness not because they are, so one argument goes, breeding grounds of crime, but because a civilized society should simply do so." The government should understand what they want by doing their actions and they should figure a solution to avoid riots. One solution is to help the poor people to find a job and then they could work for extra hours to receive an extra money therefor, there will be less crimes because they will be busy working just to get extra money and they might be useful in the community.
Bibliography
Harney, D. (2011) Why Poverty, IsThe Mother Of Crime! Available at : http://www.labourleft.co.uk/why-poverty-isthe-mother-of-crime-by-david_harney/ ( Accessed date : 21/March/2014 )
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