Social Class

In this urban society, poverty is treated as proof of bad character, so the boy’s “slum background” invites suspicion. Class prejudice shapes votes, silences lived experience, and turns a legal decision into conflict over fairness. hen jurors hear that the accused was “born in a slum”, should that detail matter at all—or does it reveal more about the people judging him than about the crime, especially if a community expects poverty to produce violence and lets that belief shape evidence, empathy, power, and life-changing choices?