Crime and Its Impact on Society

Exactly what is crime? Simply put, crime is an act that violates the rights of a person, or persons, or their property. That's a rather simplified definition. The actual definition is much too long for this article. But crime is not only a violation of a person or persons; it can also be an act that could endanger the lives or safety of the public in general. An example of that type of crime could include the firing of a weapon inside the city limits. By discharging a firearm in a populated area, you endanger the lives of all who live within the range of that particular weapon. The bullet could ricochet and hurt an innocent bystander, or if fired into the air, it could come down and injure someone. By firing the weapon in a populated area, the person who fired it has demonstrated a wanton and reckless disregard for the safety of others.

Crime affects us all in one way or another. Because of that, society has enacted laws designed to protect every man, woman and child. For instance, the person who shoplifts from the local department store causes all of us to pay higher prices for the products or services we need. Let me explain. When people shoplift it costs the company they steal from money because they had to pay for that product and they got nothing for it. They just lost money. Now imagine four people a day shoplift products totaling . In seven days they lost 0. But what if that company has 100 stores nationwide and each store loses a day. That comes to 00 a day, ,000 a week. Multiply by 52 weeks a year and you get a whopping 8,000 lost every year. Now they have to implement security measures to control their losses. And it isn't cheap. They have to install cameras, hire security people to watch the cameras and walk the floor, insurance for those people not to mention the salaries for each of them. On top of all that there is the cost of prosecuting
all those shoplifters.

Many companies spend millions every year to prevent theft. The money lost from stolen products, money spent on security and wages for the security staff has to be made up somewhere. Guess who has to make up the shortage? You guessed it. You, the honest shopper, ends up having to pay higher prices for the products and services you want.

Crime and Its Impact on Society

But the price you pay for crime doesn't stop there. You don't get off that easy. Once the lawbreaker is prosecuted he/she has to be incarcerated. Housing, clothing and feeding criminals is expensive. In 2007 a local newspaper, The Sacramento Bee, reported that the average annual cost of housing prison inmates in the California prison system was ,287 per inmate. In 2008 TV station WHAS in Louisville, KY. reported that the average cost of housing an inmate in KY. was ,000. WHAS also reported that Kentucky has the fastest rising inmate population in the country, causing huge money problems for the people of Kentucky.

Crime costs all of us in higher prices for food, clothing, etc. and in taxes to pay for housing criminals once they are prosecuted.

Crime and Its Impact on Society
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Christa Pike's Story - What Does the Case of Christa Gail Pike Say About the State of Society?

When Christa Gail Pike was twenty years old, she was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she committed when she was eighteen. That is Christa Pike's story. It sounds horrible, doesn't it? A girl so young, her life already over - as, even if she was not put to death, she would surely live out the rest of her life behind bars - at such a young, tender age.

However, there is more to Christa Pike's story than meets the eye.

First of all, the crime she committed was incredibly heinous, and for the pettiest of reasons. She was convinced that the victim, Colleen Slemmer, was trying to steal her boyfriend. But rather than make snide comments about her behind her back as most girls her age would do in that situation, Pike tortured and killed her. She kept a piece of her skull as a trophy and showed it off around her school. That was the level of depravity and indifference to human life that she exibited.

Christa Pike's Story - What Does the Case of Christa Gail Pike Say About the State of Society?

When she was convicted and sentenced to death, many were outraged and heartbroken. Was it because of her gender? If a boy had done such a similarly heinous thing, wouldn't the public be glad to know that he was safely locked away? It seems society has a soft spot for women.

But, in this case, that soft spot was misplaced. Far from being rehabilitated by prison, Pike attempted to murder a fellow prisoner by strangulation only five years after her incarceration.

Why is it so unthinkable to society that we should punish a woman's bad acts as severely as a man's? If you do the crime, you should do the time. Your gender shouldn't matter.

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Crime and Society

Punishment? Justice? Revenge? "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Vengeance is mine", sayeth the Lord. I am not a vengeful person and I am not God. I am actually kind and tolerant, but I have a few bones to pick.

The fires that burned so tragically in Southern California have set me to thinking...again...about the nature of crime and its punishment. Certainly, most of those fires are the result of low humidity, high winds and unfortunate accident. I am fairly certain, however, that some of them have been deliberately set. "Fire bugs" tend to take advantage of these sorts of situations; what's one more fire among so many?

Did I mention that I am a kind person? Well, as true as that is, I have some rather strong views about justice. And I am not normally a judgmental person, either.

Crime and Society

I do not believe that, as a society, we deal effectively with those who perpetrate crimes upon our society. If everyone who ever thought about setting a wild fire burning knew for an absolute fact that they themselves would be set on fire as a punishment, how many of them would actually set a fire? Maybe that is a little too cruel of a punishment. Maybe we should just burn to ash everything that they own. Granted some egomaniacs will think that they can not be caught. But you get my point, right?

Our criminals, when caught and prosecuted have a nice, relatively cushy jail cell to look forward to. I am certain that thousands of years ago when mankind first banded together into tribes, they did not tolerate behavior that went against the best interests of the tribe. Individuals who endangered, directly harmed or broke a taboo of the tribe were most likely cast out or shunned. No cozy prison cells with three square meals a day for them. Go out there and make it entirely on your own, buddy.

Whenever I think about crime, it tends to re-open a poorly healed wound. About a year ago, our next door neighbor trespassed on our property with a loaded shot gun. From our backyard, he shot and killed a miniature Dachshund that belonged to the daughter of our backdoor neighbors. They had gone out to dinner and the dog was loose in the fenced yard and had been barking for several hours. His first blast only wounded the poor dog. I will never forget how it screamed. His second shot finished it off. He did not just kill the dog, he also changed the dog owner's and our lives forever; not for the better.

Prior to this incident, our neighbor had been going around to many of us and complaining about lights left on that shined into his bedroom windows at night, noisy children, parties and the like. He wanted his way regardless of what anyone else might want. The little dog sacrificed its life to let us all know the lengths to which this man is willing to go in order to have his way.

Now, I am not advocating that a life be taken as punishment for the taking of a life. Quite possibly the British had it right; but where do you find a nice, completely isolated desert island and how do you keep it that way? Besides, Australia is now a nice place to live.

My husband and I have been shunning our neighbor and his wife (she had the opportunity to stop him), but the people who lived directly behind him have moved away and so has the family that lost their dog. If I thought there was some way to force him to move, I would pursue it. Recently, some of our good friends across the street have started talking to our next door neighbors again. We do not hold this against our friends, but it is a shame.

Our felonious neighbor gets to continue to live in his house (he served no prison time, but did complete several hundred hours of community service at the Humane Society) and continue his life as if he never did anything reproachable. This is just wrong.

I do not know what the ultimate answer is. I wish I did. But I do know that criminal behavior should never be tolerated, forgotten, forgiven or condoned. I believe that we, as a society, owe it to ourselves to find a better solution to the problem of crime and implement it. Sometimes the hard decisions just have to be made. And believe it or not, I would be happy to help make them.

Crime and Society
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