Is Poverty a Crime

StudyMode - Premium and Free Essays, Term Papers & Book NotesBut while a man who chooses to be poor cannot be charged with crime, it is certainly a crime to force poverty on others. ... Therefore I hold that poverty is a crime–not an individual crime, but a social crime, a crimefor which we all, poor as well as rich, are responsible.

But while a man who chooses to be poor cannot be charged with crime, it is certainly a crime to force poverty on others. ... Therefore I hold that poverty is a crime–not an individual crime, but a social crime, a crimefor which we all, poor as well as rich, are responsible.But while a man who chooses to be poor cannot be charged with crime, it is certainly a crime to force poverty on others. ... Therefore I hold that poverty is a crime–not an individual crime, but a social crime, a crime for which we all, poor as well as rich, are responsible.
Dear Friends,

HIs It Now a Crime to Be Poor?

Hope you are all doing good.

Well I would like to ask you whether you agree that being poor is a crime or not.  But then poverty can also lead to crime especially as the poor do also have feelings for things they cannot afford and like to fulfill their needs and may turn to crime if their needs are high and expensive. They may find an easier way out rather than work hard for it. So let’s see what  opinion you form as everyone’s opinion differs!

Regards,

Is Poverty a Crime

IT’S too bad so many people are falling into poverty at a time when it’s almost illegal to be poor. You won’t be arrested for shopping in a Dollar Store, but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor, you’re well advised not to engage in any of the biological necessities of life — like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering. City officials boast that there is nothing discriminatory about the ordinances that afflict the destitute. In defiance of all reason and compassion, the criminalization of poverty has actually been intensifying as the recession generates ever more poverty along with ticketing and arrests for more “neutral” infractions like jaywalking, littering or carrying an open container of alcohol.

If poverty tends to criminalize people, it is also true that criminalization inexorably impoverishes them. Poverty is a crime to a certain degree, although in saying that it’s not a crime to be poor, and he who is poor is not a criminal. The bottom line is though we as a human race strive, struggle and fight; often work as much as we can so we will never be in poverty. For poverty can run through all class, even to the very wealthy, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t give everything they have to get out of poverty. For stated by a man named Carlyle “The hell of which Englishmen are most afraid is the hell of poverty”. For that matter it is not only the Englishmen but anyone would dread being poor.  If a man voluntary chooses to do nothing in his life but sit on the sides of the street and beg, that could very well be his choice and hurt nobody but himself. But on the other hand if that man had a wife, children and it was his duty to support them then that in itself is a crime. And he is pushing poverty not only on himself but on the others, that is when that poverty becomes a serious crime, and should be seen as a crime by the government. With saying that it should certainly be seen as a crime to force poverty on those people around you, but today’s world it is not seen as a crime. For poverty is not just an individual crime but it’s a social crime for everyone poor, or rich are responsible. And therefore we pay for as a society through paying through our taxes to support the people who decide to do nothing with their lives and not strive, struggle and fight like the rest of the population. Think for yourselves; ask yourselves whether this widespread fact of poverty is not a crime, and a crime for which every one of us, man and woman, who does not do what he or she can do to call attention to it and do away with it, is responsible.

...The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.  Poverty is being without things, having little money, not many material possessions and in need of essential goods. In short, being poor means that the people have nothing, and they have to struggle to even survive everyday. After physically and mentally tortured for a long period of time due to poverty, evil thoughts of getting out of the vicious cycle through illegal ways or new ideas...

Poverty! Can there be any doubt of its cause? You will find people as poor as poor can be—living year after year on potatoes or leftovers by the rich, and often going hungry. There is no difficulty in discovering what makes those people poor. They have no right to anything that nature gives them. There is something worse than physical deprivation, something worse than starvation; and that is the degradation of the mind, the death of the soul. Think for yourselves; ask yourselves whether this widespread fact of poverty is not a crime, and a crime for which every one of us, man and woman, who does not do what he or she can do to call attention to it and do away with it, is responsible.

Parsan Narang

23rd November 2016