The Stereotype of Criminally Disposed People in Poverty

For many years, the issue of criminal disposition has been greatly associated with those who reside in poor neighborhoods. Violence may occur within low income or predominant minority communities but much good has come from neighborhoods such as these. Further, this stereotype has generated much controversy: While some believe that all poor neighborhoods are the worst, indeed not all people who come from poor neighborhoods are not criminally disposed. Because of aspiring individuals who are prosperous today; the impact of crime on some poor communities influence the others to strive to improve their community; and not only does crime come from poor neighborhoods but wealthy communities as well. One argument supporting non criminally†¦show more content†¦In addition, another group is the Community Outreach Program; they mainly focus on keeping young adults and children on track and give them other activities to do to keep them off the streets. The program in D.C participates in many positive activities which helps the participants become more involved in school and less involved with negative energy. With programs such as this violence in poor communities are bound to decrease any time soon. In addition to positive leading groups within poor communities, with the accusation that all people that are poor are criminally disposed, many wealthy people as well have done much crime it just was never exposed as greatly as others. Many murders, and gang affiliation has been associated within wealthy communities and have not been reported. Opponents of these views present many arguments. They claim all gangs derive from minority communities. Also of this view, people associate many murders that are acclaimed to derive from poor communities. Moreover, they think that all people from poor communities are uneducated and therefore don’t know any better and result in a life of violence. However these views can be easily refuted. Many gangs start in other countries such as South America and Asia and then relocate to America. Much affiliation and connection with the gangs that reside in America are based off different countries and followers take with