And with that comes a life of anguish and the only thing they can do is turn to 'crime'. For them, the benefits of a crime outweigh the consequences. Hanna Rosin, author of "American Murder Mystery," also agrees: "as part of a national experiment to free the poor from the destructive effects of concentrated poverty." Rosin sees how destructive poverty can be for people. Rosin is not alone in thinking that poverty is destructive, she quotes HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros: "'these enclaves of poverty,' where 'the drug dealers control the stairs, where the children can't get out to play, where mothers put their clothes".