Alexia Carrera
English 102
Professor Martinez
Essay #1 Final Draft
October 3, 2015 Recent tragedies related to gun violence have led to increased calls for stricter gun control nationwide, but here in Chicago, violence occurs daily. Chicago is a city in crisis, because it’s a city of poverty, which is one of the factors that increase violent activities. There are many theories as to why people commit crimes but the main one that stands out is the connection that crime shares with education and poverty. As people start losing education they are not able to get or maintain jobs that pay good wages. When that happens it’s more likely that those people start losing the resources to provide for themselves and their families. When people go into
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Therefore, people look for other ways to get the money to support themselves and their families by going from something so simple like petty theft or it can escalate to drug trafficking and other severe crimes. Some might say that mental, physical, or sexual abuse at a young age can also be the reason why they commit crimes. But, although that may be true studies have shown that on average the more time the youth spends in school the less violent they will become because they’re mind is being used for a better purpose which is to learn rather than plan a certain crime. Another reason for that is because schools just don’t teach math, English and history they also teach you how to live in society. The problem isn’t so much education itself, the real problem is: are kids living in poor urban areas even going to school at all? Research dating back to 1966 – with the famous Coleman Report – shows integration into society is the key to better grades and successful education. Poverty is also a huge factor following education in which so much violence happens on a daily basis in Chicago. Not receiving enough education most likely will lead the person into poverty because they are unable to maintain well paying jobs. They then loose the resources needed to provide for their families or themselves and eventually turn into crime to pay for all those expenses. The results of a new study by Mike Males from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco support the argument that teenage poverty, not teenage biology, is most to blame for teenage