Money In The Ghetto Essay

Money is such an important item in the ghetto. These people living here obviously want better for themselves. They say “I live here not because I choose to, but because I have to” (Jones, et al., 1997, p. 200). There is nowhere else they can afford. And they know that “poor adolescents are more likely to be exposed to violence, to feel more alienated from school, and to be exposed to high levels of stress” (Steinberg, 2016, p. 119). But there is nothing that can be done. They are victims to the community they live in. There are some kids in the community that are worse than others. When discussing the teens who pushed the child out of the window, they did that for candy. “Imagine what he would do for twenty or thirty dollars- he’d shoot the