Across the globe, certain individuals claim that poverty is the main reason of people becoming criminals. This essay disagrees that financial deprivation can be a main reason of criminal activity. The following paragraph we will discuss about the real reasons of committing certain kind of crimes.
To commence with, the first and foremost logic to disagree is that crime does not necessarily equate to robbery and does not involve any financial advantages. As an example, nowadays in Kazakhstan rape is one of the most common crimes being committed. There could be several reasons, such as mental health related illnesses and abuse of power and poverty has nothing to do with it.
Despite, fraud and bribery is a big scourge of society and it is proven that most of criminals are tend to be wealthy and high-ranking individuals, who driven by avarice and narcissism, desiring additional wealth.
Furthermore, even that it is believed that low-income people is more involved in such kind of crime as burglary, robbery or drug dealing in order to achieve their basic needs. But according to some statistic, among thieves and drug dealers who have been caught, there are individuals of all financial standing, not just the impoverished.
In conclusion, there is no doubt that poverty is the powering issue to create any type of disturbance worldwide and solution of this problem must be found. However, it seems to me that, criminal activity is a controversial topic and there could be a vast amount of motives such as revenge, mental illnesses, greediness etc. Therefore, the poverty is not only the case of criminal activity