Abstract
Bangladesh, as a developing country, has been facing several problems with poverty, rising food prices, corruption, unequal distribution of wealth, unemployment, impoverished living condition, rising criminal activities, and so on. The purpose of the study is to explore the relationship between impoverished living conditions and crime in society by using information from prisoners at Jamalpur district jail, Bangladesh. The study was conducted employing mixed approach that taking into consideration both quantitative and qualitative methods because of its nature and subject matter. The study found that impoverished living conditions of people and lack of economic solvency are the main driving forces influencing prisoners to commit crime. Besides, crime varies in terms of education, religion, marital status and occupational variations. Moreover, society accompanied with unequal distribution of wealth, corruption, degradation of social norms and values, rising separation and divorce and political abuse is more prone to commit different types of crimes such as drug business, robbery, theft, trafficking, smuggling, crimes under arm act, prostitution, women repression, rape, etc. Poverty reduction programs, adjustment of uneven social and economic conditions, enforcement of law, counseling system could be policy recommendations in this sensitive area.
Highlights
Criminologists have long assumed that socio-economic conditions and social inequality play an important role both in why particular individuals become involved in criminal activity and in determining levels of crime within particular societies (Newburn, 2016)
One hundred (100) respondents were interviewed who were involved in different crimes and twenty (20) case studies have been taken as sample, and among them, five case studies are documented for cross-checking the quantitative data
There are notable variations in education level among the prisoners selected for the study
Summary
Bangladesh, like other underdeveloped or developing countries, has confronted with the problem of impoverished living conditions among most of the common. Crime is not a new phenomenon; from the beginning of civilization, society has been facing different patterns of crime based on demographic, social, economic, geographical and political circumstances. Criminologists have long assumed that socio-economic conditions and social inequality play an important role both in why particular individuals become involved in criminal activity and in determining levels of crime within particular societies (Newburn, 2016)
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