Sorry, however, I believe the crime rate is roughly the same everywhere in the human population. The causes range from 40,000 years of alcohol abuse, to many of the ancient and modern drugs of choice. The uniformity of these criminally insane populations seems to indicate that we have, over thousands of years, mutilated our genetics to the point where the percentage of violent crime is disgustingly predictable.

Obviously present at every bus stop near a so called halfway house, these criminally insane men are released periodically, and one of them murdered a local woman.

As published here: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/p risons.htm the United States of America has over two million prisoners, about half of them were incarcerated for violent crimes. Simple statistics could be used to show roughly the same percentage in many parts of the world. This means there are about twenty million criminally violent humans in the world, another forty million will do other crimes, perhaps limited to drug abuse and taking property that belongs to others. Whatever the nature of the crime, these statistics have been roughly the same percentage for many years.

What are the causes of criminal behavior? Poverty is probably not a fundamental cause. However, the areas where poverty is entrenched seem to be ripe for wealthy criminals to recruit gang members, and build gang structures that might be a fundamental cause of violence in human behavior. This type of gang violence was definitely a reason for the entrenchment and the continuation of poverty in my little home town. After the world war ended in 1945, gangs of various ethnic backgrounds took over the real estate within my home town, and forced people of color to move out of town.

The general background of these bigots was the same as my family origins, southern Italy and Sicily, where the gang structure known as the Mafia seems to have been born. This group of violent men soon established a headquarters, within my small home town, for every type of criminal behavior. Their criminal network reached every nation and every population on earth. Drug runners, for Pablo Escobar and his cocaine cartel, and many drug cartels, arrived in my home town almost daily. They did illegal gambling on a local level, and were probably behind the fixing of state lottery numbers.

Once rich in major industrial sources of employment, my home town today is more entrenched in poverty than it ever was. The gangs infiltrated the labor unions, causing strikes, and stealing products. The major industries eventually got the clue, and moved away, leaving huge abandoned buildings, shot full of holes in the windows and walls by local gun enthusiasts. While they were in power here, the gangs did at least one ritual murder that I know of, just a few hundred yards from the low income apartment building where I live now. The city has recovered, the gangs are gone now.

But the poverty of mind and body may last for many years.

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