Hunger and crime: The criminogenic nature of food insecurity.

Abstract

Economic decontrol, inflation, shortages, dollarization, as well as alarming levels of crime are factors that describe the current socioeconomic reality in Cuba. Although it is impossible to access updated statistics from the Ministry of the Interior in this regard, through the denunciations of activists, independent media reports and the widespread visualization in social networks we know of robberies, brawls, assaults, swindles, and also of more serious phenomena, such as femicides and homicides. These events are public knowledge, and reproduce vox populi warnings that increase the fear, caution and disappointment of previous years. The Cuban population, already immersed in the precarious search for food to sustain the family diet, must add to the practices of getting up early, waiting in long lines, negotiating in the black market, those of prudence, stealth and care to avoid being victims of a crime.