You job is to write a paper that examines and discusses some aspect of the relationship between poverty and crime.  You can also discuss what might be done to help remedy the obvious problems that exist.  The paper topic is wide open, find an angle in the relationship between poverty and criminal justice and run with it. I would add, that, of-course race/ethnicity, poverty, and crime also intersect. This paper is a good way to study this intersection as well.