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How does poverty affect crime rates in Mexico?

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They are completely correlated: with increased levels of poverty, many young adults find themselves without a job or legal ways for improving their lives and their families'. They then resort to a life of crime, from pick-pocketing to car stealing and in many cases, joining the ranks of Mexican drug cartels.

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