This is easy, just ask any career teacher. Can be summarized in one word.... parents. Or the lack thereof.
The OP specified
gang violence. The vast majority of poor kids without parents do not become gangbangers.
To put it another way, every gangbanger has parentless brothers and sisters who are not gangbangers.
Their lives may suck, but most of them never kill or try to kill anybody.
Ask any career cop, like Pat.
