Causes of Increasing Crimes (Term Paper Sample)

Cleon James
Professor
Soc 101
12 December 2015
Crimes in Society: Causes of increasing street crimes in our society
The society has been transitioning from the early centuries, when it was sparsely populated to this 21st century where population has more than doubled. With the dense population comes the scramble for resources, which in most cases are usually scarce. Lack of access, to the resources, results to need of forceful or violent acquisition. In law, it is crime. "A crime is a wrongful act of such a kind that the State deems it necessary, in the interests of the public, to repress it; for its repletion would be harmful to the community as whole," (Durhaime.org)
As illustrated above, crime is lawfully punishable, sometimes with longer periods of incarcerations. However, why is there still rise in street crimes in recent times? This is an answer, we get, through the famous historic quotes by Henry Thomas Buckle, "society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it." Basing on this we find out, the society is responsible for increase in street crimes. The various predisposing factors resulting to increase in crime in our society include; cultures, these are family values, the various existing systems (political, educational and type of law enforcement), and economic factors. In most cases, a combination of these make people commit crime as intricately elaborated below.
Drugs and alcohol are by far the most influencing factors to increase in street crimes today. These are with no doubt addictive social factors with strong influence over a person’s consciousness to make a choice. In order to maintain one’s habitual consumption, the user is hooked into having the urge to commit crime, without fear of the consequences, which in many cases are long periods of incarcerations. The apparent judgment impairment caused by these drugs acts as an impetus that lures them into committing crime without fear.
Easy access to firearms and Television violence are other contributing factors to increase in street crimes in our society. Poor legislative laws by the politicians has led to infiltration of firearms into the society. Nowadays guns are easy to come by and in this era of Hollywood influence, on the blockbuster movies, which are always riddled with gunfights, screen violence, the young generation has become trigger-happy, like what they watch on screens. Thus, they resort to crime trying to adopt the lavish lifestyle they desire from the television without the interest of hard work.
Low income and education are among the ma...