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Quote by: Sweet Katie  There is a breakdown that begins with parents not teaching responsibilities and not providing strong moral foundations for their children. Then, the breakdown continues with an extremely flawed educational system with teachers pointing fingers at parents when situations occur. The common dominator for school shootings is that the students feel (think) that they are not a part of their institutions of learning. Schools needs to focus on better participation and acceptance of all students, including all school personnel taking personal responsibility when situations occur and ask, "Where are we failing the students and how can we do better?"
If more attention would be paid to teaching children responsibility and adults taking responsibility the prison rate would decrease within a couple of generations. |
I'm not sure that this is an answer. I suggest two things:
First of all, if you want to lower crime, the main thing you can do is keep society stable. If people have jobs, they have too much to lose, thus dissuading them from genuine criminal acts. This means social programs that help people get back on their feet so they can be part of the economy in a legal way.
Second, we need to stop imprisoning people for things that are not genuine criminal acts. I'm not a big fan of either recreational drug use or prostitution, but criminalization is an utter failure, resulting in little impact on the activity but lots of generally decent people behind bars. By legalizing but regulating these activities, we gain some ability to offset the bad parts, without flooding our prisons.
TC