Some people think that poverty is the reason behind most crimes. Do you agree or disagree ?

The latest trends show that more and more poor people are getting trapped in the vicious circle of crime.

For

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reason, some believe that poverty is the motivation behind

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indulgence. I agree with

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view.

However

, I do believe that factors,

such

as lack of

education

, drug addictions etc., are equally important. First of all, poor people do not possess any assets or

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of income. They are unable to afford basic necessities

such

as food, etc.

This

scarcity often becomes the motivation to follow the wrong path to earn money. A survey shows that 56% of the population of the world are poor and they hardly meet their ends. As an example, a man who needs to buy medicine for his wife, but

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because of

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of funds, is very likely to steal them from the medicine shop or might pickpocket some wealth from others.

On the other hand

, factors

such

as lack of

education

, narcotic addictions, friends influence etc., are very important.

Education

helps a person to make the right choices in life and opens the door to multiple job opportunities. An uneducated person cannot differentiate between right and wrong because they cannot assess the damage one wrong decision can do in the long run. So, they might commit offences without thinking about the impact. Another reason is drug addiction. If an addicted person runs out of funds to buy drugs,

then

to get funds for drugs they start committing crimes.

For example

, recently a man from Punjab, had kidnapped a

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boy for ransom, to pay for his drugs.

To conclude

, poverty is one of the many reasons that leads to crimes. There are multiple other motivations

such

as lack of

education

, drug addiction  etc., for committing a crime.