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Show CRIME PREVENTION THEORIES FAIL According to the American Eugenics Eu-genics Society, crime costs the United Uni-ted States at least $10,000,000,000 a year. In other words, every 3 seconds we sustain an economic loss of $1,000 due to crime. Thus, crime becomes a financial as well as a social problem. Wo mut all pay for it. Scientific crime prevention, tnen, not onl safeguards the persons and properties proper-ties of our citizens, but directly benefits their pocketbooks. Unfortuately there has been very little scientific crime prevent tion in the United Scales. We have attempted to fight crime on the theory that a social and economic econ-omic disease can be cured by legislation. leg-islation. Recently the Grand Jury in one of the largest American cities charged that there was a well-established, three-cornered alliance between the police department, the corrupt politicians and the criminal crimin-al element. Protection of this nature na-ture is the greatest possible stimulant stim-ulant to crime. It can only be stopped by a public demand for the enforcement of basic, long-established laws. Crime statistics indicate that major crimes such as murder, manslaughter man-slaughter and robbery are on the increase. This in spite of a vast volume of suppressive legislation, which, while it restricts the law-abiding, law-abiding, has no effect on the lawbreaker. |