Relationship between Income Inequality and Crime - Reflective Essay

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Business Research
Reflective essay over relationship between income inequality and crime

Business Research 1
This reflective essay is based on the topic income inequality and crime. It is based over two
previous assessments which are also based on the same topic. There are various reasons which
are responsible for occurrence of crime and income inequality is one of those aspects which lead
to occurrence in crime. In order to control crime rate, it is necessary to develop strict rules and
regulations. Penalties associated with the crime are majorly responsible for the crime rate. Apart
from the income, there are various sociological factors which affect the crime rate and some of
those sociological factors are unfair treatment, discrimination practices, etc. The major focus of
this reflection essay will be based over the relationship between income inequality and crime.
I have learnt that income inequality plays crucial role in occurrence of crime and income
distribution is one of those factors which lead to occurrence of crime in developed countries.
Globalisation is also one of those factors which lead to occurrence of crime as it has filches
employment opportunities from the local residents (Pickett & Wilkinson, 2015). I have also
realised that multinational and other large companies are moving towards the cheap markets of
Asian countries in order to reduce cost of production and this has generated unemployment in the
developed countries. People have lost their jobs due to globalisation and due to aggressive
competition. In these scenarios, people have moved towards the negative aspects such as crime
and other related activities for their livelihoods. I have learnt that information technology has
acquired a large part of the market and with this, requirement of skilled and educated labours
have been increased. Due to this, unskilled labours do not get relevant chance to justify
themselves. Therefore they choose alternative ways for their survival and for improving their
financial conditions (Cooper, Kennelly, Durazo-Arvizu, Oh, Kaplan & Lynch, 2016).

Business Research 2
According to my experience, for living a healthy and basic life, it is necessary to get educated,
skilled and gain specialization in any field as per the individual’s interest. This helps an
individual to find the most appropriate manner in order to get a job or find a way to satisfy his or
her needs. But people who could not able to get all these facilities due to low financial conditions
or due to other factors such as low cast, discriminatory practices followed by the rich and high
class people, etc. This decreases the morale of the people and fills an immense level frustration
to prove themselves in front of the society irrespective of the way chosen and sometimes, this let
them towards anti-social activities to bring out frustration as well as to prove themselves. I have
researched on this topic and found that majorly it is seen in under developed countries
(Enamorado, López-Calva, Rodríguez-Castelán & Winkler, 2016). This is because those
countries have various issues such as high unemployment rate, huge population, practices of
unfair treatment, discrimination, etc. Due to these factors, competition amongst the individual’s
increases and people who are skilled enough get the opportunity and uneducated and unskilled
people chose the anti-social way to survive as well as to fulfil their basic needs. Though, anti-
social activities are risky but people with less education and with fewer capabilities adopt these
ways to snatch the money from rich people along with ignoring the risk involved in those
activities (Buttrick & Oishi, 2017).
Distribution of income is based over the individual’s effectiveness and efficiency but sometimes,
people found this distribution system of income as unfair treatment which leads to generation of
disputes. As per the discussion in previous tasks that before 1965, US were suffering from huge
crime rate and the major reason behind was lack of education. Most of the criminals arrested
were found college dropouts and they take support of anti-social activities for their livelihoods as