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Show 0 - Causes of Crime EVER since Adam and live were turned out of the garden of liden, the world hav been trying try-ing to determine the cause of crime, believing no doubt that if the causes could be removed, crime would cease. Police chiefs from various cities In the United States, holding their annual meeting in San Francisco, give the research a modern trend. as they attempt to fix reiponsi-billty reiponsi-billty for the recent crime wave in this country. These men are In daily contact with crime and should know something of their subject. (f 1 eighteen chiefs, four believe that crime is due to lack of education, three blame the home environment, en-vironment, three hold prohibition responsible, two declare it is poverty and two say the reaction from the war is to be blamed. Practically all of the causes cited by the police chiefs are tangible and can be reached in time by society . Education can be and is provided for every Individual in the country. Consequently ' society cannot be held lacking In this respect. Ignorance, due to lack of education, is due chiefly to lack of desire in the individual. Many states have provided pro-vided compulsory education laws to meet this condition. Still the burden rests with the individual. indi-vidual. Automatically this education should provide pro-vide ideals which would correct the crime causes due to poor home training. Crime which Is attributed to poverty is not so easily reached and yet more often than not covetousness is Interpreted as poverty, l.ove of luxury is one of the besetting sins of the age and Is apparent on every hand. People feel poor when they are not provided with an automobile and the other earmarks of success. They feel that they are driven to crime, although the right think-Irtf think-Irtf individual, with less, cannot justify the claim. Prohibition and after the war reaction are dif- ferent elements and some of the responsibility rests with society. Prohibition laws are held in contempt In many sections. There i.. collusion between the underworld and the respectable citizenship citi-zenship to defeat them. Disrespect for one set of laws breeds contempt for others. As a result the conscientious scruples which constitute barriers bar-riers to crime are removed. Of oil the things cited by the police chiefs this is the one which demands public thought and attention. Prohibition Prohibi-tion must either be made to command respect or It must be abandoned, because the present .course is destroying our integrity and contributing a large quota to the lawbreaking population of the nation. I |