This argument of social disorganization and criminal opportunity as factors to why poverty influences crime does have some relation to childhood neglect. The Black homicide rate in America is 34.4 per 100,000 (Cooper and Smith 2011). Poverty and debt Sections Reports Briefings Data visualizations Related issues Research library. A new study shows that children growing up in poverty are seven times more likely to harm themselves and be involved in violent crimes as young adults. Not only that, but a country’s economic growth (GDP rate) has significant impact in lessening incidence of crimes. In a study that measured childhood neglect and childhood family poverty, these variables were significant predictors of criminal behaviour (Nikulina 315). Poverty is the main driver of crime, so please look at each states youth unemployment rate and then compare that to their youth prison cost/rate. Persons in poor households had a higher rate of violence involving a firearm (3.5 per 1,000) compared to persons above the FPL (0.8-2.5 per 1,000). It also reveals that serious youth violence in the capital started rising in 2012. The analysis may have been made clearer and simplified.

Crime prevents businesses from thriving by generating instability and uncertainty (at micro and macroeconomic levels).

Persons in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000). Far from offering people a "second chance," our criminal justice system frequently punishes those who never had a first chance: people in poverty. This does not pan out. The economic causes of crime thesis is strongly contested, and the extremes of poverty and unemployment in the EHRC report are a powerful empirical stress test of its credibility. Given this, if poverty is the main cause of racial crime disparities we should expect Europe to have similar crime rates to African Americans. One of the biggest reasons juveniles commit crime is simply a lack of distraction. But areas with higher rates of unemployment and few social services also tend to have higher crime rates. The statistics, in the most detailed study of the causes of violent crime ever undertaken in London, show that more than a quarter of all young Londoners live in the most deprived areas of the capital. Children who live in poverty are less likely to be involved in the hobbies or sports programs that occupy their affluent counterparts.
Poverty alone is not the reason behind juvenile delinquency. Governments trying to deal with the effects of poverty often also have to face the issue of crime as they try to develop their country's economy and society.

Thus, Europeans are just slightly richer than African Americans. Since reduction in income inequality gap and a richer economy has an alleviating effect on poverty level, it implies that poverty alleviation has a crime-reducing effect. There are many factors that influence juveniles to commit crime.
The study used data from Denmark, however, two of the authors Professor Roger Webb and Dr. Pearl […] This research highlights the importance of providing child-friendly public services, housing and education. Some people feel it is appropriate to fill the $123,400 bed rather than the $12,000 seat at public school, especially because it creates jobs.