Racism breeds poverty, and poverty breeds criminals, and this paper will show the different avenues of social problems.
Poverty in the African American community ran deep, and rapid to the destruction of these neighborhood. “The association between crime, punishment, and poverty has long been the subject of sociological and criminological investigation. A classic literature has linked poverty to crime (Blau and Blau 1982; Braithwraite 1981; Sampson 1987; Shaw and McKay 1942; Wolfgang and Ferracuti 1967). This line of inquiry has typically examined the role of poverty and deprivation enhancing the risk of criminal involvement and criminal victimization.” (http://npc.umich.edu/publications/workingpaper06/paper15/working_paper06-15.pdf) Chicago is in a bad way right now people are dying in record numbers every day, babies, and senior citizens alike. If this was in the eighteenth century the people would have been hanged, or flogged to death. In Rotterdam, Germany the crime, and punishment museum in a castle that showed all different forms of torture, and execution. There was not mercy when it came to crime, it was always tied into poverty. “Prior to 1965, the US homicide rate was consistently under 5 per 100, 000 population. Secretary Duncan was speaking after the Department of Education published a new report that found that black students, whether poor or wealthy, are more than three times more likely to receive out-of-school suspensions than white kids in US schools. “The sad fact is that minority students across America face much harsher discipline than non-minorities, even within the same school," Secretary Duncan said ahead of the announcement of the report at Howard University in Washington.” (Alfred, Blumstein, Joel and Wallaman 2006)