CAUSES OF CRIME In this modern era, there are a lot of crimes keep happening around the world.

We can easily find news about someone had done any crimes on the daily newspaper. Crime is the breaking of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction. Crimes that we usually found in newspaper are disappearance of children, serial murders, single homicides, serial rapes, extortions, threats, kidnappings and many more. All these crimes need to be control to ensure our country is in a peaceful condition. However, what are the causes of crimes? The reason that cause crime rate to increase is that most countries have a poor parenting. According to the research by Currie and Tekin (April 2006) which using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, it shows that the child maltreatment are having doubles the probability that an individual engages in many types of crime. According to Bloom (May 2011), parents serve as role models not only through direct interactions with their children but through the examples they set with their attitude and behavior within the family and in the outside world. Parents behaviors and attitudes usually will be imitated by their children. Therefore, family care and love are important to reduce the crimes rate among the children. Lack of education may lead to the crimes occur continuously in the society. According to a paper from the University of Western Ontario and the University of California, Los Angeles, people that educated are probably less to involve themselves in crimes. They are more patience and also not likely to take risk to commit a crime. Although high education is needed to decrease the rate of crimes, over educated in

religions may cause the crime indirectly. Religions always believe in God who is guiding us in some ways. According to the article, 22 Ways Religion Promotes Crime by Kalin Ringkvist, this may allow the prayer to commit a crime without guilty as they convince themselves it was a hint that was given by God. Overall, proper education is needed to control the incidence of crime in the society. Another cause of the crime committed in society is poverty. Studies have shown that people at lower level in socioeconomic commits a crime more compare to those who are rich. According to (Higgs,News24), the extreme differences in perspective on poverty as a root cause amongst shack dwellers show the desperate circumstances in which these people feel that they are and the possible desperate measures they see happening all around them by those who want a better life. The urgent need for service delivery, at the very least, is tangible here. According to (Currie, 115), countries where violent crime is an endemic problem are those in which prosperity, is confined to some sectors of the population and denied to others. Another cause of the crime committed in society is the media violence. Debates about the effects of media ranging from books to video games have a long history (Trend, 2007). Some scholars claim that media violence effects have been conclusively demonstrated, so much so that the certainly equals that of smoking and lung cancer (Bushman & Anderson, 2001). Mass media always spread bad information in movies which show us the society full of crime and violence. It can truly influence ones behavior and the way they think by produce an automatic tendency to imitate observed behavior. Overall, we need to wisely distinguish the right and wrong information shows in movies.

As a conclusion, crime is a serious problem with negative effect on society. The causes of crime include poor parenting, failure education, and poverty and media violence. Government and society should take action as fast as possible to solve this problem. Some possible solution includes educating criminal, town planning which help poor people to improve lives, control media and more.

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