Crime and Poverty in Mexico

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Survey information Part 2

Here, we can see that most of the people that took the survey, think that the best strategy to decrease poverty is to create jobs, followed closely by a better management of resources by the government. The third most popular belief is that the quality and reach of education should be greater. Nobody believes that the minimum wage is the best strategy.

In the graphic above most of the people believe that the main reason for which someone can commit a felony, is because lack of education, the second most popular belief is that it is caused because poverty itself, followed by difficult background in which the person comitted the crime grew up, last, people think that it is caused because some kind of mental health problem. Nobody believes that is because of the government.

Here we can see that most of people think that that poverty is the lack of resources and essential services and goods in order to have a quality life. Also people think, that poverty is not having enough money and with this, the incapability of acquiring material things.

All the persons who take our survey agree in the same choice

Finally, we can see that all of those who made the survey, think that if there is a proportional relationship between the amount of povery and crime in a society.

Survey information Part 1

We made a survey to a poblation of students , all the question where about poverty and crime, to know more about their experiences through this topic.

The total of people who answer the survey where 15, all of them university students.

The 40% of those students admit have suffer or experience ways of crime:

This 40% of students that have experienced crime, explain to us what type of crime was. Their answers where the following:

A stole
A shooting
Assault
Somebody stole their phones
Corruption
Robery in a grosery store

They also tell us that the places where the action took place was in:

In the street (more than 50%)
Medium class neighborhood
Center of Puebla City

We asked the too what type of person they belived commit the crime:

With this infomation we can assume that the most part of the mexican population ,at least ,has exeperienced an act of crime or violence in their daily lifes.

If you want to check more information about our survey check the part 2.

References

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Millán-Valenzuela, H., & Pérez-Archundia, E. (2019). Educación, pobreza y delincuencia: ¿nexos de la violencia en México? Education, Poverty and Crime: Links of Violence in Mexico?, 2018(80), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.29101/crcs.v26i80.10872

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Comparative table about authors

We made a comparative table of the authors we consulted to check if they have the most elements related to the topic

How poverty triggers crime in Mexico?

symbology: “X” means it has

“No” means there is no information or the author does not have it

Table where the authors are compared in various aspects.

ABOUT US

We are a groups of students who want to analyze and give information about poverty and how it can generate violence and crime in Mexico, consulting the best trustworthy references. Do you want to know us better? Here are our profiles.

My name is Yered Yosshiel Bojorquez Castillo, I’m 18 years old, I was born in Tehuacán,Puebla. Currently I’m studying an engineering in Robotics and Telecommunications. I have 1 younger brother, he lives with my parents. I really like playing soccer and playing the piano, I have participated in soccer competitions just like I have participated in piano recitals in different cities, but all thanks to my parents who always supported me in everything. I’m a shy person, I always had a bad time making friends anywhere, people have to get close to me so I can talk to them, that’s because it’s been hard for me to make friends. I’ve got 3 dogs and 1 cat, one of those dogs I’ve loved like nobody, currently lives in Tehuacan it is a pug breed, and I think it’s been the best pet I’ve had in my short life, if anything happens to her I don’t know what I would do, she’s my best friend. I thinks we should live in the present, forget the past and wait for the future.

My name is Sofía Salazar Ortega. I was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas and i have 18 years old. At the moment i am studying bio clinical chemistry in order to learn more about the physiology in living organism. I like to be with my family and friends and taste different types of food. I lived most of my life in Veracruz (for almost 16 years), one of the richest states of natural sources but one of the poorest in economic matter, that is why i am very familiarized with the topic of poverty and that is the main reason of why I am interested in it. Also because i grow up in a city where violence is in all parts, making the local people feel afraid to hangout in the street or even be outside their houses, makes me want to study more the relation between these topics.

I’m José Julio Flores Campos, born and raised in Puebla. I’m 20 years old and, currently I’m studying a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I decided to study this, because I’m interested in the development of science and technology, and my career gives me the tools to understand, work, and create in these two areas. I’m interested in the development of clean energy and also in the creation of functional, eco-friendly, and accessible materials. Another important aspect that concerns me is the inequality that exists in Mexico and how it does not allow to the less fortunate to access to science, technology and education. In my free time I like to listen to music, watch movies, go out with my friends, read, and also to watch and practice sports. I consider myself pretty chill and friendly.

I’m Aldo Villanueva Ortíz , I was born in Tlaxcala and I have lived most of my life there, currently i’m studying energy engineering because I got interested in the bad administration and monopolium that is behind the business of energy. As well as seeking another alternatives that are 100 percent sustainable in order to generate the power that a society needs without compromising resources.

Authors

In this section are all the authors we consult to make our investifation more accurate. Wanna take a look?

Ioan Grillo.

He has been reporting the Mexican Drug War and the Latin American illegal drug trade since 2001. He has worked in in reports and documentaries and as a reporter for stations including PBS and Channel 4 of the UK, CNN, The Houston Chronicles and Sunday Telegraph.

Ayn Rand

A Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936.

Maya Rhodan.

She is a reporter for Ebony.com, Washington Magazine, Washington City Paper, The Center for Public Integrity and blackpressusa.

Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano

Flores, K. (2019). “La economía de los mexicanos en Estados Unidos” retrived from http://gaceta.uabc.mx/imagenes/cultura/la-economia-de-los-mexicanos-en-estados-unidos

https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=-3CqKTcAAAAJ&hl=en

Roderik Rekker.

A political scientist and psychologist, he makes researches to examine stability and change in political attitudes across time.

Ruth Green

Henio Millán-Valenzuela

(2015). “Signos de Mesoamérica, invitación a la presentación de Saúl Millán Valenzuela“. Retrived from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSm5LF5ZVew

Eduardo Pérez-Archundia

” RETOS PARA LA EDUCACIÓN ESTADO DE MÉXICO”. Retrived from https://docplayer.es/54568612-Retos-para-la-educacion-estado-de-mexico.html

Stephen D. Morris

Guillermo Trejo

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He was previously on the faculty at Duke University and at the Centro de Investigacin y Docencia Econmicas (CIDE) in Mexico City.

Jessica Donati

Harold Bloom

American literary critic known for his innovative interpretations of literary history and of the creation of literature.

Martha E. Nateras González

Diario Evoluvión.(2019).”Política atravez de redes sociales”. Retrived from https://www.diarioevolucion.com.mx/participan-jovenes-en-politica-a-traves-de-las-redes-sociales-programa-entre-todos/

Timeline

Before we stablished our question

How poverty triggers crime in Mexico?

We just make investigations about Poverty in general and did not limited it to povertt that provokes crime and violence, just mae it about genral poverty

Here are some of old authors we used:

(Al Camp, 2011.)

Because when in the United States was prohibited the production and sale of alcohol in the 1920s and 1930s, 1920. And more than 60 percent of Mexicans were poor in the 1950s, compared with only 14 percent in 2006. Mexico became sources of illegal ship-ments.

(Harold Bloom,2012)Between 2003 and 2005, the food supply per capita daily in Mexico was 3,270 kilocalories on average, while the minimum requirements are only 1,850 kilocalories per capita daily.
(Ayn Rand,2011)In 2008, 18.2 percent of the population in Mexico was in poverty meaning they could not buy adequate food for their families even if they use their entire income. An analysis done by CONEVAL found that the states with the highest percentages of food poverty were Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca.
(Jose Visoso,June 2017)The human and economic costs of crime in Mexico have risen to historic highs. 2017 was Mexico’s most violent year on record with over 25,000 homicides—a 50 percent jump since 2015. Economists usually distinguish direct and indirect costs associated with crime. The human and economic costs of crime in Mexico have risen to historic highs. 2017 was Mexico’s most violent year on record with over 25,000 homicides—a 50 percent jump since 2015. Economists usually distinguish direct and indirect costs associated with crime.

(Ruth Green, 16 July 2018)

Mexico is used to seismic activity, but not of the electoral kind. On 1 July the country witnessed its biggest political shake-up in decades as Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed a landslide victory, vowing to tackle endemic corruption, poverty and violence. An estimated 70 percent of Mexicans live below the poverty line. ‘Poverty is the most serious problem affecting the country and this, along with the lack of the rule of law, is the main cause of the violence,’ says José Visoso, a partner at Galicia Abogados and also an officer of the IBA Latin American Regional Forum. ‘The huge test for the next government will be to reduce extreme poverty and improve the security situation.

(Jose M. Martinez, 2014)

Two rounds of a longitudinal survey from Mexico, representative at the national, urban, rural, and regional level, are used to examine the determinants of local, domestic, and international migration. Aside from the typical covariates in the migration decision, this study considers health conditions, crime, and individual’s perspectives on life as explanatory variables.

(Martha E. Nateras González, Daniel E. Zaragoza Ortíz, 2017)

When analyzing the phenomenon of organized crime and wanting to-

contracting a specific cause of its origin, it is common to refer to different

factors, the most common is the socio-economic level of people, that is,

explain that the problem of crime in general is due to the poor

za, the lack of opportunities and in general, the context in which it is presented

This poverty The above seems to establish a syllogism in which if you are

poor, you are prone to be a criminal, 3 therefore certain areas that ex

perimeter poverty rates are at risk of

Present maximum levels of violence and crime.

(Arriagada, 2001)

Causes of violence

Retaking risk factors can be classified into three large groups:

a) Those related to the family and social position and situation of people: sex, age, education, socialization in violence, alcohol and drug use;

b) The social, economic and cultural: unemployment, poverty, overcrowding

ment, social inequality, violence in the media

tion, culture of violence; Y

c) The contextual and institutional: war, drug trafficking, corruption, availability of firearms, holidays, among others.