*These statistics based on The European Union
Crime is a major problem in any area. Crime exists mainly because everyone needs to eat and have housing. If you do not have a legitimate means to provide for yourself you are limited to few jobs. Most of these jobs pay minimum wage, €7.06($7.25) an hour. This for a 40 hour week(The average working week) is €282.42($291.38). Food, necessities(Toiletries and Laundry), and housing costs an average of €462.11($597.92) which leaves you in a debt of €179.69($232.5). This is bad every week you lose money, your options are borrowing money, which is comparable to building on sand or less accepted methods(Crime).
The most common means of illegitimate gains in Europe consists of; Drug trafficking, Domestic burglary, Violent Crime, Robbery, and Motor vehicle theft. These often give great gains in money as they are high risk high return, they are all against the laws of these countries1. Surprisingly even with the lose of money2 the crime rates have been dropping, with the exception of burglary and drug trafficking, some have dropped as much an average of 8 reports a year. I think that this is a great, as any improvement to lessen crime is good for the community.
1 Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and The United Kingdom
2 Statistically
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