In reality, money is a driven factor towards wealth and criminals want to earn money rapidly in order to take care of their families. Those individuals didn’t have the tools and skills that society want from employees, so this situation makes it even harder for them to change their lives. Cynthia also stated that based on her experience, she noticed that a lot of criminals were illiterate. Criminals feel frustrated and coming from a poor social class that has fewer opportunities and resources to achieve the American dream. One most important points to address is that those criminals know that they have a short satisfying lifestyle by doing crimes in order to ensure their family status which may be the financial relief that they have always wanted and to ensure that their children don’t follow their footsteps and to have those resources available for them so they can live a lifestyle that those criminals don’t have achieved …show more content…
Besides, average imamates typically had or has a parent in jail or been living with a single parent in a community that suffers from poverty. Also, some of those criminals have been self-raised and limited resources and skills which one essential component is a lack of knowledge of reading. This correlates with third generation jail experience that those individuals have been witnessing throughout their lives. During Cynthia’s time in the Juvenile detention center and interacting with the criminals, she found out that distrust and creating assumptions towards her ethnicity is a huge component. A lot of criminals didn’t want to talk to her because she was merely white which they thought that she didn’t go through any hardships or struggles growing which she felt upset and disappointed about because those individuals don’t know what Cynthia went through while growing