Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.