How can crime be eradicated when poverty and illiteracy are not eradicated in the world?
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Your question is both timely and poignant.  There are still people who believe that poverty can be eradicated simply by providing people with more social service benefits, and there are those who still believe that higher minimum wages (living wages) will solve these problems.  Poverty and despair are the main underlying causes of crime, and to address them, society must adequately address illiteracy and must make advanced education and training available to a larger number of its citizens.  We can no longer afford to have a college education be as expensive as many people could afford to pay for shelter.  We can no longer afford to have the only good elementary and secondary schools in many communities be the expensive and highly selective private ones that are beyond the reach of the people who live in the neighborhoods in which these schools lie.  In a nutshell, our educational system is in complete disarray from top to bottom.  Teachers are grossly underpaid, but the standards are so low to enter that otherwise noble profession that the field attracts way too many people who are not qualified to work anywhere else.  If our teachers were paid commensurate with the experience, skill, expertise, and success ratio they each individually bring to the table, and those who did not measure up to the much higher standard we must adopt were fired for cause (or retrained and then reemployed), our students would learn much more of what they need to learn.  Illiteracy would improve because teaching would improve.  Crime would improve because literacy would make more people gainfully employable and poverty would have a significantly reduced effect on our society.
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Unhappily, most "developing nations" are corrupt.  Billions have been spent on them, only to have the bucks stolen and/or misdirected and/or misspent.  Further, a bunch of them have an environment rife with disease and degradation.  It is a very formidable enterprise to "help develop" such places.\n\nSo I would say that what would be most effective is to promote self development strategies, which would mean self-cleansing of corruption, to start.  Once that has been well enough tackled, then these nations should prioritize their development with the view that the people need to work, and to work, they need decent food, clothing, health care, and education.
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Including only 1st world or developed countries. singapore has the least crime.they have stiff laws.\nLike getting caught with drugs carries the death penalty,no questions asked.  You can get caned for littering( whipped on bottom of feet with bamboo). I think USA has the most
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decline. the governemtn should spend more on  the people living in poverty before it tries to save anyone else
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Many criminals are capable of reform, just not under our current system which does not emphasize it.  Our current system is a punishment system, and we care not enough about rehabilitating them.  In our current system, the crooks go in with a mild understanding of their crime, but come out with master's degrees in being a more effective criminal.
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You know what DOES stop urban youth crime?\n\nPrison.
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I will answer this by pasting an article. I beleive its the best way:\n\nFOR a very long time, our society has been plagued by different kinds of maladies like discrimination, exploitation, oppression and poverty. Because of this, several solutions have been made and offered in order to eradicate or, at least, alleviate them, but only one has been proven and tested to be the most effective - education. \n\nSarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former president of India (elected in 1962), believed that education possessed the power to alleviate all maladies affecting our society. "Education," he opined, "is the process of giving the individual, knowledge and skills which he should apply in his life."\n\nIn his remarks to the National Assembly of Lesotho in Maseru, dated 28 August 2002, UN secretary general Kofi Annan had this to say: "One of the prerequisites to fighting poverty in the long term, as study after has shown, lies in education. We know that in the course of the past century, countries committed to universal primary education - for boys and girls - far more successful in escaping poverty. They have enabled their people to lead more fulfilled, productive lives. They have given their people the chance to make better use of democratic opportunities." \n\nIn school, as well as in our very homes, we have learned that, in life, there are three (3) basic necessities for survival, to wit: food, clothing, and shelter. To these three, we may add education as the fourth. \n\nObserving the same view, Georges J. Danton, French revolutionary leader (1759-94), said more than two (2) centuries ago: "After bread, education." \n\nFor his part, Oscar Arias, in his speech during the annual conference of the Global Alliance for Transnational Educate (Gate) held in San Josi, Costa Rica, dated 08 October 2001, emphasized: "Education is the most basic necessity after those that are vital to life itself - food, clothing and shelter. It is education that lifts people out of chronic poverty in which they are constantly struggling to fulfil basic needs like these." \n\nIndeed, there is a direct link that connects lack of educational opportunities and poverty, and this has been shown many times over. \n\nDuring the "War on Poverty" in the 1960s, Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th US president (1963-1969), said poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance. \n\nOn the other hand, while speaking on the occasion of the "World Literacy Day," dated 08 September 1999, James D. Wolfenson, World Bank president, said: "Literacy is pivotal to human progress. All agree that the single most important key to development and poverty alleviation is education. Adult education, literacy and lifelong learning must be combined with the fundamental recognition that education of women and girls is central to development." \n\nThis link holds true for the other forms of maladies affecting our society. This is so, because, aside from being the most effective solution to poverty, education also plays a very crucial role in strengthening the very foundation of the protective walls surrounding the halls of democracy and liberty. It protects and defends the weak from the abusive hands of some individuals or families who sits on the throne of power and wealth. \n\nQuoting former Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan once again, he said: "Education should be liberating and life giving." \n\nJohn Adams, the first vice president (1789-97) and the second (2nd) president (1797-1801) of the US said liberty could not be preserved without general knowledge among the people. \n\nEchoing the same sentiment, John F. Kennedy, the 35th US president (1961-63), said liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain. \n\nIn this connection, the words of Walter Lippman, a political commentator, are also enlightening. He said no amount of charters, direct primaries,
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You may not get accurate number of people starving in the world. However, if the priviledged people in the society could take care of the under-priviledged in their immediate environment then we will have victory over the problem of starvation in the world
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When they stop killing each other and elect non corrupt govenments would be a start. Education is the key. All these charitys chucking money at them wont change a thing.
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There will always be crime. As long as there is more than one person on this planet there will be crime. Because no two people see things the same way. What is fine in one persons book is wrong is someone elses. So there is no solution. Even if people were to stop breaking the laws there are today new laws would be made just to make sure that laws continued to be broken. When the govenment says it is at war with crime and that everything is being done to end crime they are giving a pacifier to a baby thats all they are doing. To many jobs depend on the fact that people are commiting and will continue to commit crimes.  Crime is a business. In the jungles where they dont worry about money and business they dont have jails or police and have very little crime. They dont have drug addicts and they dont have drive bys or hit and runs or drunk drivers. The men hunt and the women stay with the kids so they also dont have strange people watching thier children that could be doing more than watching them. They dont watch tv so they dont have bad ideas made to look like something really glamourous or exciting. \nI think it is a crime for parents to hit thier kids and other parents think that is a crime for parents who dont.  The only macro solution would to be to start all over again with all new people but there would still end up being crime as soon as greed sets in just like today.
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Eradication may not be possible but it can be controlled to a great extent. Corruption is a very bad thing and it is the root cause for inferior quality of work, efficiency can be camouflaged by this corruptive practise. It is very unfortunate corruption is becoming a way of life. This can be handled with lot of sincerity by all the anti corruption agencies, Central Vigilance Commission etc. It may be surprised to know that these agencies are also highly corruptive.\n\nOur political system is corrupt, administrators are corrupt, executive is corrupt, legal system is corrupt. The one and only solution is young generation and they should desist corruption. Youngsters should enter into politics as the present politicians mostly are corrupt and spoil-ed the entire system with bringing criminals in political system. Young journalists are doing pretty good innovative journalism and exposing corrupt. Now Youngsters should get into political system with clean heart and will and should keep themselves away from corruptive deals. If highly educated and intelligent youngsters get into politics and govern the nation then the nation can further progress tremendously and one can see to eradicate corruption.
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The problem is the disproportionate number of children being born to poor, ill-educated people.\n\nThe number of children being born to poverty homes where they have limited opportunities of receiving health care, quality education, and a good upbringing are staggering. While the number of children being born to middle class or higher families where they have excellent opportunities are very low.\n\nSo now we have a disproportionate number of poor, uneducated people in society. That is a drain on our health care system, our welfare system, our taxes, and it increases our violent crimes.\n\nThis is the issue.
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The problem in the third world countries is not money to be solved by these aids. The problem is corruption, ignorance and social underdevelopment. People there should wake up, thats their only way.
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You can never eliminate it completely.\n\nThe keys to reduce corruption are transparency, liberty, democracy, and reduction of beaureucratic impediments to enterprise.  As with all thing, eternal vigilance and resposibility are key as well.
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it is not very easy to combat poverty in a corrupt country as those who are responsible for combating corruption themselves becomes corrupt.  corruption is very deep rooted in many countries.  a country like india  corruption has become a way of life.  one corrupt tries to overtake the other corrupt whereby making the economy poorer.  it is because of the resources abundantly available in this country it still survives.  had there not been corruption from top to bottom this country would have become super power long back.  there is no dearth of wealth in this country as that of there is no dearth of corruption. since it is a sages country only the god can save the poor as they are becoming poorer day by day.  from politial parties to bureaucrat from the high echelons of bureaucracy to the down below level u can find currupts in all walks of life eating into the sahre of the poor
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I.D. cards are irrelevant. Successful deterrents will lower crimes rates. We have to stop this "You naughty naughty felon, don't do that again" attitude to criminals
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In a nutshell:\n\nPros: Helps to eliminate murderers/rapists/pedophiles. Reduces population of multiple time losers in prisons rather than rewarding them with a lifetime of free food and shelter paid for by the taxpayers. Reduces need for taxpayer-funded "rehabilitation programs" where the offender is "rehabilitated", then released to kill/rape again. Improves the gene pool. Serves as a deterrent to future criminals (and yes, it does work in other countries despite what a previous poster said, and there are statistics to back it up).\n\nCons: None except the huge supply of scum who deserve it. Occasionally an "innocent" person is put to death; but historically in the US the number of cases like that is very small, less than 1/10 of 1 percent...and with improved DNA technology this number is fast approaching zero. I put the word "innocent" in quotes because as a rule, if you are in the system, you aren't totally innocent... even if you aren't necessarily guilty of murder. Let's say the guy didn't KILL the kid, he just participated in the torture and rape part. If he's 'mistakenly' put to death don't you think he got what he deserved anyway? \n\nEven though there will always be some idiot out there willing to see if he can "get away with it", capital punishment is the single most effective crime deterrent available, despite what bleeding-heart liberals might think.\nIt is a proven fact that for every rehabilitation success story, which the liberal media glorifies at every turn, there are 1000 failures where the offender repeats the crime. Offering someone life in prison in today's justice system means offering them a life of free food, shelter, medical care, education, and the ever-present chance to escape and do it again. The death penalty insures without a doubt that they'll never do it again. Enough said.