Poverty causes crime. From the male point of view, it is hard no to get caught up in crime. Black men can get slapped with domestic and violent crime; society looks at us with lower standards.
             The majority of men that are locked up came from a background of poverty. They did not have their fathers. Many of their mothers had them at a young age. They did not have any positive, real male role models. They basically had to raise themselves. The fathers did not have the money to get abortions and then once the baby arrived, they did not have the money to raise the child. Then once the baby arrived, they were living in squalor and poverty and they turned on the TV and saw how the rich and famous were living and they wanted to live like what they saw. So if they saw someone who had something that they wanted, they would take it from them by any means necessary.
             People who live in poverty often want to escape from their lifestyle. For many, this escape is drugs. Once they start doing drugs, they keep trying to achieve the feeling of getting high for the first time. Once they use up their entire source of income and possessions (which are scarce to begin with), they will try to get money for drugs by stealing, robbing, and killing.
             Society also shows that people without money and material wealth are basically nothing. They get no respect and they have no power to even try to change their situations. They are basically made to feel as though they are worthless and have nothing to live for. Once people feel that they are backed into a corner like that, they will usually do anything to get out. And usually that results in violence or crime.
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