Description
: As many people lose their jobs and are forced to stay at home during the corona virus pandemic, a question arises: Will more people commit crimes? Answer is "Poverty causes crime and crime causes poverty". Already we have some news on last couple of days.
When you have concentrated poverty, people are still going to want to survive. They are going to want to make money. And therefore what it leads to is a fertile ground for criminal exploitation in various different forms, such as drugs, drug turf wars and the violence that’s associated with them. It becomes a fertile ground for people looking to self-medicate themselves, so you are talking about theft, breaking into cars, breaking into homes. Violence and homicides result from that.
The system will take relatively minor offenses, turn them into criminal convictions.
Here is a set of strategies for famine prevention in conflict zones for the immediate, short, medium and the long run:
• Humanitarian aid.
• Rebuild communities.
• Strengthen local food system resilience.
• Focus on long-term economic strategies.
• Connect farmers to markets.
