WHY IS CRIME SO HIGH?
Here's Why Crime Keeps Rising
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Do you realize that America has an exploding criminal class? From about 1925 to 1973 there was an average of a little over 100 people behind bars for every 100,000 residents of this country. By the year 2003 that rate had quadrupled, with almost 700 people incarcerated for every 100,000 residents. Approximately four million Americans are currently behind bars, with about six million on parole or on probation. Another five million Americans are ex-convicts.
About 12 percent of the adult male population in the United States has been found guilty of a serious crime, and that the rate is even higher among minorities. Fourteen million Americans--8 percent of the adult population--have been found guilty of a serious crime--a felony--at some time in their life. The rate among adult men is 14 percent. One in 20 has been to jail. And the rate is even higher among minorities! Twenty percent--one out of every five black men--has been convicted of a crime at some point in his life. That is an incredible statistic!
Why do we find the rising criminal class in America? In the United States, in recent decades we have seen a breakdown of the family and an increasing rejection of godly values. Tolerance is about the only value that people emphasize. People have lost sight of the fact that all values are not created equal. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is destructive. As the family has broken down, as standards of right and wrong have become blurred in the home, it is no wonder that they have been blurred in the society as a whole. We’ve got a problem. And that problem is only going to get worse.
About 12 percent of the adult male population in the United States has been found guilty of a serious crime, and that the rate is even higher among minorities. Fourteen million Americans--8 percent of the adult population--have been found guilty of a serious crime--a felony--at some time in their life. The rate among adult men is 14 percent. One in 20 has been to jail. And the rate is even higher among minorities! Twenty percent--one out of every five black men--has been convicted of a crime at some point in his life. That is an incredible statistic!
Why do we find the rising criminal class in America? In the United States, in recent decades we have seen a breakdown of the family and an increasing rejection of godly values. Tolerance is about the only value that people emphasize. People have lost sight of the fact that all values are not created equal. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is destructive. As the family has broken down, as standards of right and wrong have become blurred in the home, it is no wonder that they have been blurred in the society as a whole. We’ve got a problem. And that problem is only going to get worse.
