A Lifetime of Crime
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A Lifetime of Crime
SOC305: Crime & Society
July 31, 2011
Crime affects us all in one way or another. Exactly what is crime? Simply put, crime is an act that violates the rights of a person, or persons, or their property. In this paper I will discuss the costs of crime on society, the impact crime has on families, how crime impacts families, how children learn to become criminals, gangs, and other criminal careers.
“Because crime affects us all, 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. 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 they have to implement security measures to control their losses; and it is not 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. Who has to make up the shortage? The honest shopper ends up having to pay higher prices for the products and services you want.
However, the price you pay for crime does not stop there. You do not get off that easy. Once the lawbreaker is prosecuted, he or 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 $43,287 per inmate. In 2008, TV station WHAS in Louisville, KY reported that the average cost of housing an inmate was $20,000. WHAS also reported that...
SOC305: Crime & Society
July 31, 2011
Crime affects us all in one way or another. Exactly what is crime? Simply put, crime is an act that violates the rights of a person, or persons, or their property. In this paper I will discuss the costs of crime on society, the impact crime has on families, how crime impacts families, how children learn to become criminals, gangs, and other criminal careers.
“Because crime affects us all, 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. 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 they have to implement security measures to control their losses; and it is not 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. Who has to make up the shortage? The honest shopper ends up having to pay higher prices for the products and services you want.
However, the price you pay for crime does not stop there. You do not get off that easy. Once the lawbreaker is prosecuted, he or 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 $43,287 per inmate. In 2008, TV station WHAS in Louisville, KY reported that the average cost of housing an inmate was $20,000. WHAS also reported that...