So, you're having problems establishing a dictatorship? Don't worry, here at dictators r us, we can help!
1. Make protests a crime. You can do this a sliver at a time. Make a call on heart strings. Because of these protestors actions X happened.
2. Make it a crime to encourage others to protest for their rights (because they are encouraging a crime). Now you have strangled freedom of speech, the press is muted! Ha!
Well done, you are now a dictator and the law protects you and your cronies!
Crime, stress, poverty, trauma brain architecture, poor educational outcomes and poor health come as one picnic basket. Start with any of them to positively impact the others, but a kind society looks at all of them simultaneously. They aren't genetic, but they do impact epigenetics.
"Lore and rising order" vs "Law and rising disorder." To fix your world, fix your lore.
Crime is baked into the money-nexus, the masses were always supposed to be so poor that they would either work for starvation wages or die. That's social darwinism.