Today, crime rate is a menace that each country faces. It is said that society has a direct influence in making criminals. Government imposed many laws to reduce crime rate to make world a better place to live in, but majority did not find expected results. In this essay I would like to discuss about some of the reasons why people committing crimes and what measures government could take to prevent it. First and foremost reason is unemployment and poverty. Everyone of us should have a job to reach our goals and fulfill our life. Population explosion also made difficulties to find jobs for each individual. Jobless person may find hard to make both ends meet and develop frustration among themselves. This at last end up in to antisocial or criminal activities where they get easy money. Another main reason is broken families or single parenthood. here children will not get any attention neither from the family nor from the society; feels alone and makes them engage in crimes. For instance, Children those have unpleasant past experiences would be rebellious to society. Medias like internet, porn movies and detective novels also plays a tangible role in making them worse. Population control is a major step to be implemented to abolish criminalities, starting small scale industries to provide job for the young graduates may also could cut short the unemployment. Last but not least implementing and enacting stringent laws and counseling also can suppress crime to a certain level. To put it in a nutshell, todays children are tomorrows law abiding citizens. Everything should start from the root level. Government and society are equally responsible to make them perfect and to avoid crimes.
Are people more prone to self-destructive behaviour (like alcohol and drug abuse)? Can the war against drugs be ever won?
Human beings are more likely to behave in more self- defeating ways depending different circumstances, such as a person’s mental health. If a person is depressed or anxious then that person is more likely to behave in a self-destructive way than a person would if they were mentally healthy. Other important factors that contribute to self-destructive behaviors include low- egos, low self-esteem and seclusion. Results from various studies propose that a “strong feeling of social inclusion is important for enabling the individual to use the human capacity for self-regulation in ways that will preserve and protect the self and promote the self's best long term interests of health and well-being." The war against drugs can't be won and it should not. This is a war without cause. Without reason. It is a political tool. The problem with drugs is single-fold. They are illegal. It is the illegality of drugs in a free society, that allows drug-pushers to flourish. It's drug dealers who cause the violence and the war. Legalize it, and there will be no more war. Tax it and billions will be made to help the poor, create jobs, education and infrastructure. Let people decide for themselves. The arrogance of a government deciding what a person can do with his own body, is what is causing the problem. No illegality, no war, coz there will be no dealers fighting each other and the police. It's a stupid, unneccesary war.
Is marriage in crisis?
We are living in truly momentous times. The historic pillars of Western civilization—biblical religion, marriage and the family—are under siege and crumbling. In the last half of the 20th century the fundamental building blocks of human society were compromised, corrupted and rejected at an alarming rate—and the trend is only accelerating. But what has caused this rapid demise of marriage and the family? For anyone willing to look, the contributing factors are not hard to find. Author Black states that the rise of relativistic thinking in the 1960s convinced many Americans that "they could trade responsibility and genuine commitment for sensual self-indulgence and self-gratification. Church and state, marriage and family, and many of our most sacred traditional values came under attack. The moral underpinnings of society were discarded in the name of personal freedom and self-actualization". Talk show host Jim Bohannon comments that when people began "doing their own thing" in the 1960s, families began to disintegrate. He observes that "doing your own thing, for parents, means splitting up over just about any provocation. It seems easier to divorce than stay married these days. Divorce has easy to follow steps, and a legion of lawyers to guide you. Marriage comes with no owner's manual, and is… hard work sometimes". Researcher Stanton writes that many today are "unable or unwilling to make the kind of commitment marriage requires".