There are many socio-economic reasons for crime. Poverty and joblessness, broken homes, inequality and lack of social mobility are often cited.One of the theories is that crime and economy are linked in cycles. If the economy goes up, crime goes down. In T&T this doesn't necessarily seem to have been the case–crime has gone up while the economy, measured in per-capita GDP, has reached never-before-experienced heights.
Another theory is that it's all down to policing–more police on the streets, less crime. A former minister of national security once boasted that per capita T&T had more police officers than most US cities, but still crime spiralled out of control. Blimps and a foreign Commissioner of Police made little difference as well.
What if one of the main drivers of crime is environmental, and it's not being taken into account by policy-makers? What if there's something in the air, water and soil that makes us more aggressive, more criminally inclined? Would this explain why crime has been so hard to tackle using traditional policing methods?Let's assume, for the sake of this article, that lead pollution is one of the drivers of crime.
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