| The issue of crime has a simple solution and a complicated cause. The solution is for everyone to do the right thing by society. Because people are not doing this is why we have crime. So the question becomes why are people not doing the right thing by society. That is where it gets very complicated. There are two main cases:
1) They don't know any better.
2) They know better but for one reason or another they do not act on their knowledge.
Case 1) ‘They don't know any better’ can be blamed on the collapse of families, schools, religion, government, you name. But my guess is that there are not that many people that actually fall into category 1)
Case 2) I think that most people fall into this category. The reason why I think this is that crime rates seem to follow the economy. When there are plenty of jobs and people can make a good living crime seems to go down. When things are not going so well for many people then crime goes up. Now it is certainly more complicated than this but this is an important data point.
So if you want to make a big dent in crime then make everyone prosperous. It works for me.
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