Robert Carlyle is excellent as the leader, as are Ray Winstone, Philip Davis, Steven Waddington and Damon Albarn as his fellow crooks, though theres a dubious sub-text about Carlyle being driven to crime through political disillusionment.
While people from the favelas are driven to crime because of their lack of opportunities, middle class people become increasingly scared of violence and concerned for their security.
Extracts from interviews during the course of the study suggested that some felt they were doing nothing wrong, others were driven to crime by their desire for material wealth and others thought they were too clever to get caught.
You might have deduced that the claims adjuster Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) was secretly hot for the insurance salesman Neff Fred MacMurrayy), but could you ever have guessed that Neff was driven to crime because he had failed sexually with Phyllis Barbara Stanwyckk)?
They could be driven to crime by poverty or stress resulting from the jailed person's absence, or become inured to violence through more frequent exposure to criminals.
"Young people in financial hardship could experience homelessness, be driven to crime and other antisocial behaviour, family breakdown and possible criminal flow-on resulting from removing the social security safety net".
If a woman has been driven to a crime of passion after severe provocation, having otherwise lived an exemplary life, she is considered less of a danger to society than a man who has frequently abducted teenage girls, raped and murdered them.
McCourt lost three of his six siblings to early deaths in childhood, fought typhoid himself and was driven to petty crime for survival.
The trigger for a connection to me is how my grandmother, a Missouri native, believed to the day she died that the James boys were driven to their crimes by the banks and the railroads and their crushing of the common people for profit.
