I agree but there is no hope of changing behavior and making crime less attractive to the poor unless there is a clear way out of poverty.
Right now grinding to the max gets many people nowhere. The market for young people is trash except for dangerous jobs that are likely to leave them injured by 45, a few cushy jobs obtained through nepotism or tech jobs that require rare autistic talents.
Being a “regular worker” now is very close to poverty with conditions continuing to get worse. People just say “find another job” but many of these jobs are critical and should be paid with dignity. Something is very wrong
To blame the problem of Black criminality on economics, is to ignore the fact that in many of our rural communities where poverty is rampant, there is relatively little crime. Culture, not economics is the core issue that leads to the high crime rate in Black communities.