Tuesday, March 30, 2010

WHERE HAVE ALL THE CRIMINAL WENT?

The beginning of the book the author talks about Nicolae Ceausescu. who happened to have been communist and banned abortion in 1966 in Romania, however he goes on to say that there was a difference between babies who were born before the law was passed and those who were born after the law was passed, these babies who were born after the law was passed were criminals and had a higher chance of being uneducated, but the question that I wanted to ask was, what was the difference between the two children and how come these babies who were born after the law was passed were more of criminals? when the author talks about the idea, where in the economy the crime rate drops when the economy rises, I wonder where is the correlation between the two, what does crime rate have to do with the economy? It is true; there is less crime when more people are employed because no one is thinking of stealing from the other. We see this in neighborhoods where there are more educated people; one hears little or no crime. i like when the author talks about increased reliance on prisons. if prisons are made so that, when ones goes there, they are treated like prisoners, then people would be scared to go there, and less crime would be committed. However when we look at prisons today, they are like luxuries. Prisoners are treated like they are on vacation. They get three meals a day, have cable, have a gym, and all they do is sleep all day, then how can anyone not be discouraged to go to prison. Today there are people who go to jail to escape their issues, because in prison one doesn’t have to worry about their next meal of the day because the government provides it. Our taxes pay for their meals. The population in prisons is increasing. I think if they made prisons a little more strict less crime would be committed.

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