Children Crime And Poverty Assesment Report

Running head: CHILDREN, CRIME AND POVERTY
CHILDREN, CRIME AND POVERTY
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CHILDREN, CRIME AND POVERTY1
CHILDREN, CRIME AND POVERTY
The psychological well-being of any person depends on the surrounding social,
economic, and physical environment. In the case of children, therapists claim that those living
with lower socioeconomic status are often felt hopeless about their future due to the non-
fulfillment of their desires by the families in childhood. Children of those families possess a
substantial risk of developing mental health problems like drugs, violence, and crime other
than those belongs to a wealthy family (Bartol and Bartol, 2014). This study aims to analyze
the role of socioeconomic status in influencing a child’s mind in committing a crime.
The connection between poverty and crime in criminology is difficult to find.
However, as per many research reports, poverty generates criminal behavior in people,
especially among children. The reason behind this is due to low-income people has to stay in
areas or place where crime is an easygoing thing for survival. People living in slums and
shabby areas believe that money is everything as their living depends upon that. Similarly,
they do not possess any social status to maintain. Thereby they often publicly fight over
money with each other. This also impacts a child's mind. These neighboring factors force
them to commit small or big crimes with the purpose of earning easy money. As per one of
the research reports, children who belong from the topmost 20 percent of the rich and decent
families in the initial 15 years of their life, have minimum chances to commit a crime
between their 15 to 33 years of age. Similarly, children belong from the families staying
under the minimum economic standard, have the probability of causing a crime fifth time
more than a wealthy kid (Short, 2018). Professor Webb, in this regard, stated that
experiencing poverty at a tender age might have an undesirable impact on the early
development of a child (Crocker et al., 2017). A child, when seeing that his or her parents are
continuously arguing every day for money, it automatically increases the urge in them to earn