I was reading my friend's posts, when I read Naiomi's point of view about crime and its impact on society. A certain comment about this captured my attention:
" 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"
So I thought, what if it is actually our fault? If we think more deeply, why do criminals do the things they do?
Every criminal is a human being, and each human being is social by nature. So, it is imposible for a criminal to do those things without experiences he learned from somebody or certain emotions he had for somebody.
Here's an example:
-A thief shoplifts. Why?
A)He wanted food for his children.
B)He learned to shoplifting from his parents or friends at an early age.
C)The man in charge of the store said or did bad things to the thief before he actually shoplifted, and the shoplifter had an agressive character due to his parents.
and even if you think, why didn't he worked?
Well, he didn't worked becuase he is extremely poor and doesn't cover his basic needs like shower(lets face it, nobody ever contracts someone that smells); or he wasn't educated enough because he didn't got an scholarship( scholarships are scarce, they have an amount of scholarships to give and if you aren't good enough or didn't made it to the list, then you don't have it).
A criminal usually makes something illegal becuase the society pushes him to do it. In order for a criminal to do something bad, he needed to experience many harsh things about society and who compose the society? His parents, friends, people that surround him, and even other countries may influenced him indirectly too. Like war..
What can we do to stop crime?
The police can't. The only thing they do is create fear on people in order to keep them from doing something illegal.
The only ones that can help them is society itself.
We can help others or show that we care for them when they are living a harsh moment.
So, here is a final comment for Naiomi's point of view:
We pay for them in jail becuase we didn't helped them before they become a criminal.
It is our fault too.
" 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"
So I thought, what if it is actually our fault? If we think more deeply, why do criminals do the things they do?
Every criminal is a human being, and each human being is social by nature. So, it is imposible for a criminal to do those things without experiences he learned from somebody or certain emotions he had for somebody.
Here's an example:
-A thief shoplifts. Why?
A)He wanted food for his children.
B)He learned to shoplifting from his parents or friends at an early age.
C)The man in charge of the store said or did bad things to the thief before he actually shoplifted, and the shoplifter had an agressive character due to his parents.
and even if you think, why didn't he worked?
Well, he didn't worked becuase he is extremely poor and doesn't cover his basic needs like shower(lets face it, nobody ever contracts someone that smells); or he wasn't educated enough because he didn't got an scholarship( scholarships are scarce, they have an amount of scholarships to give and if you aren't good enough or didn't made it to the list, then you don't have it).
A criminal usually makes something illegal becuase the society pushes him to do it. In order for a criminal to do something bad, he needed to experience many harsh things about society and who compose the society? His parents, friends, people that surround him, and even other countries may influenced him indirectly too. Like war..
What can we do to stop crime?
The police can't. The only thing they do is create fear on people in order to keep them from doing something illegal.
The only ones that can help them is society itself.
We can help others or show that we care for them when they are living a harsh moment.
So, here is a final comment for Naiomi's point of view:
We pay for them in jail becuase we didn't helped them before they become a criminal.
It is our fault too.
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