Why would a child be on the street begging when he is supposed to be in school? If the government's law enforcement agencies are strong and is really concerned about the welfare of its people, they would make laws that will prohibit children from begging or engage in child labour.
Corruption is the obvious reason crime keeps increasing.
Op is just mixing things up together because I don't any reasonable person will give birth to a child and deliberately send them out for begging in order to survive. That was a myth about northern region of a particular country and not fact. The region is actually left behind academically compare to other regions but the fact remains that these children are begging on their own probably due to malnutrition and not on the order of their irresponsible parents.
as much as i don't entirely agree with a lot of the things OP said, cases of parents giving birth to children and subjecting them to begging is not a new reality to us and its not about a certain region of the country or the northern part of the country issue. when as a parent, who knows quite well that they are struggling to feed but you cant control yourself but continues giving birth to children that you cant train, what do you think will be the outcome of such lapses on your side? the children would want to device any known means of survival and for most of them, crime is going to be part of the first consideration.
in the ancient time, parent could afford to give birth to as much as 20 kids and still find a way to allocate resource to them because at the time, resources wasn't as scarce as what's the case with todays world. surviving in todays world involves that you travel light and once you give birth to children you can't train, they automatically become the problem of the society.
The issue of crime is entirely a different thing. AFAIK, the acclaimed educated ones are even the ones responsible for the perpetual crimes in our society. Reports we receive daily on crimes normally involve people of higher education and not entirely illiterate.
there are different forms of crimes. the educated ones are not left out but the higher crime is committed by those vulnerable ones that themselves get involved in the crime and that are at the same time made to commit those crime due to ignorant. some will kill a whole human being and sell the part for as low as $200 because they've not been exposed to that kind of money. never undwerate what a suffering person can do.