IMPACT ON PERPERTRATORS: Low Income

Question 1

Overview

Answer 1

• more likely to be victims AND perps
• high exposure to crime - criminal lifestyle
• crime out of desperation / strain theory
• unemployed/poor education — crime
• biased police

Question 2

Statistics

Answer 2

• criminals are 13x more likely to be unemployed
• uni of ed found those in extreme poverty are more likely to be both victims and perpetrators

Question 3

Statistics- poor youth

Answer 3

• poorer young people = 2x more likely to get in trouble with police
• Professor McAra found - poverty increases risk of violence
  And being in contact with juvenile justice system increases risk of poverty
  -youth study found - poverty in youth makes them 5x more likely to face statutory supervision and girls 2x more likely to get involved in violent crime
• poverty = more crime exposure than truancy, drugs etc…

Question 4

International comparison

Answer 4

United States - According to a report by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, juveniles living below the poverty line are three times more likely to be arrested than juveniles from families with higher incomes.

-A study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that in 2018, the juvenile arrest rate for youth living in poverty was 3.7 times higher than the rate for youth not living in poverty.

-The same study also found that in 2018, 23% of all children living in poverty had a parent incarcerated, compared to 4% of children not living in poverty.