Crime and Its Impact in Society

We all know what is crime, and we are living it all days. Every day in the newspaper there is something about it.

Crime affects us in some way, because of crime hey are making new laws to “protect us”.

Even the minor crime. For example shoplift, if a person shoplift the store has to pay that product that he stole, son in order to pay they need to raise the prices and they loose a lot of money. Just imagine that a person shoplifts something of $20 and if you multiply it for 52 weeks that a year has is $728,000 lost every year. It’s a lot of money and we are paying for it and we even noticed it! And imagine that there are more of the same stores it’s even more money. So, stores install cameras and stuff like that, but it isn’t cheap. And we are paying all of this in the higher prices.

But also we pay for the criminal, because it is expensive to maintain them in jail. They need clothes food, etc. In 2007 a newspaper reported that the average annual cost of housing prison inmates in the California prison system was $43,287 per inmate!

And we pay for it like in higher prices for clothes, food and in taxes to maintain criminals at jail. I don’t think that this is fair we are paying for something that isn’t our fault.