Why is crime getting worse and more bizarre?
341990
Crime I think is due to lack of respect for others and lack of personal responsibility.\n\nThe crimes are getting more bizarre because society is sadly becoming almost immune to most crime, and so the criminals who most often seek attention from media and communities, have to up the crimes to attain the same public response that they seek.
1075862
I believe it is because we have all the signs that are in the bible, like family's hating each other, people love money rather than his fellow people, and and take a look at the earth, we have more disasters than before in the bible it says one earthquake after another, etc. We have a amazing increase of disasters. And this earth has an incredible amount of crime, hatred like never seen before, Yes we have had all of this forever but it is alarmingly bad now.
890230
One of the leading causes of crime is poverty. Shame our\nleaders will never acknowledge this. \nJust check out the places where there's the most crime.
177911
I don't know but you may want to look at Foucault since he proposed a lot of changes about how we think about and treat criminals.  It may be a start.
259925
Interesting for protection, as todays world is full of criminals.
134490
It desensitizes us to violence. It also highlights the freakish and unusual, making it seem normal and ignores common and recurring events. This is why, for example, many people are more frightened of travelling in an airplane than in a car. 1000's of people die in auto crashes every year and far fewer die in airplanes, but because auto crashes are so common they are not reported. Similarly, because murders are rare, they are highlighted and our fear of crime is distorted. TV gives us an upside-down view of the world. The Simpsons is great, though.
758962
Don't know, but watch out for murders and rapists, one of the highest crime rates in the country.
760414
Civics! wohoo! lol thats my 4th period class! \n\nDo you believe crime is a serious problem in the US today? \n\n- Yes There are to many deaths and wrongs happening today..People are getting robbed or killed for useless reasons.\n- People aren't being punished enough.  They get a life sentence to jail but it seems like they get out after 30!\n-  Peoples cases are just stupid! the serious cases are put aside for cases about people oweing someone else money for something stupid!
325699
It basically makes up organized crime these days, in the 20's it started with alcohol, then that was legalized so now its on to drugs.
614424
I see where you are going with this (after re-reading it like five times) \n\nI think that often yes, we do spend an awful lot of time defending laws against things that don't really have a clear victim. But you need to trust that those laws are there to deter worse crimes. Drugs breed violence, think of all the murders that happen over drugs.\n\nI can't answer this question with any authority, perhaps you should take an associate justice class at your local community college. I'm sure they cover all of these issues.
264104
by getting more corrupt
113281
Sure, in 2002 the total number of violent crimes in the US was 1,685,900 but in 2003 it went up to 1,829,900.  This is an increase of 144,000 violent crimes in the US in one year or 395 more violent crimes every day; an additional violent crime every three and a half minutes.  It's an 8.5% rise in crime in one year.\n\nBut, looking at the bigger picture, in 2004 violent crime came down to 1,648,100, that's lower than in 2002.  And all these numbers are MUCH lower than 2001 when there were over 2 million violent crimes committed in the US.  And it's all part of a steady, uninterupted downward trend that began in 1993 when there were over 4 million violent crimes in the US.\n\nAlso, please note that these statistics were presented without:  1) mixing definitions (comparing violent crime in one year to handgun crime in another); 2) mixing measurements (comparing total crime in one year to per capita crime the nest); or 3) drawing political conclusions about the reasons for the decrease.
1041568
People are the same, its the technology that has changed. Thus, people are able to cheat, steal, lie, cover up, etc. more efficiently than they could 20 years ago. It was a dog-eat-dog world 20 years ago, and its still dog-eat-dog world today.
888621
No, this is not how it is. The problem of our justice system is quite the opposite. The majority of today's prison population consists of the offenders who have been convicted of drug charges. If only about 20 years ago, if you go to a maximum security prison, you will mostly see murderers or robbers there. Today, however, most people there are drug dealers and drug users. For the drug users, I believe is where the system fails: they need to be treated, not sent into a maximum security prison.
801271
Actually, our community seems to be turning around. We were once known as the meth manufacturing capitol of the world, with weekly killings and bodies discovered nearly every morning on SOME local street. But over the last ten years, our local churches have gotten together, and brought the community at least a little closer together. I can't really say if it was the prayer or the change in elected officials in the nearest town, but crime has indeed slowed down, and the people seem to smile more.
377991
Yes in general the world has become worse. Of course there are certain small areas that are "safer", and technologies that have made us "safer" but sometimes they bring their own badness, so generally, it's a lot more dangerous.
581622
There are probably about the same number of 'weirdos' these days as a percentage of the population as there have ever been and as there ever will be.  It's just that today, as compared with the 1950s, say, we have such a marvelous communications network that you hear about the weirdos.  And if they account for, say, 1 in one-hundred thousand people, there are so many more people now than there were in the 1950s that of course any subset of that population is now much bigger.  The US population in the 50s was around 150 million, and now exceeds 250 million, so we have a hundred million more people, which means 1000 extra weirdos using the non-scientic guess for weirdo-rate I cited above.  In addition to the media-effect, crime investigation is much better now, so many "weird" crimes that may have gone unsolved and hushed up are now solved and used as popular television(!).\n\nWhat an odd species we are!