Can people actually eliminate crime or is it just part of life?

Question

Crimes like rape, torture and abuse should not happen at all but how?

Answer 1

I don't think you can eliminate all crimes. A lot of them are comitted by mentally ill or jealous people, or sick bastards. You just can't eliminate jealousy or illness from you world.
And those "sick bastard" who get beaten and mistreated as children and turn into monsters....it is not really their fault sometimes...

Answer 2

Life is a bell curve. In any population there is a distribution of behavioral tendancies that follows a normal distribution (bell Curve). So with IQ there are a small number of people on the left of the curve with IQ's that are very low. In the middle is the bulk of the population with the mean being 100. On the right side are the smart people, a smaller number of people as you keep going up. Ok so that said, criminal tendancies follow the same path. Take stealing. On the left are cleptomaniacs who steal everything they can and can't function in society. Moving further in you have those who would steal if they had a reason and the bulk who would steal if they felt they had to. On the right you have those who refuse to steal unless thier lives depend on it and on the extreme right are those who would refuse to steal food if thier kids were starving to death. I'd say the people on either end are crazy. If we apply this logic to every type of criminal behavior you can see that some portion of the population on the left of the curve will commit crime no matter what. The theory holds that there is some theoretical minimum crime rate for each type of crime. For theft you'd have to eliminate all the socioeconomic factors that will tip those in the middle to steal. Then remove the casul availability (unlocked doors)that will cause the next group to try it. That leaves the determined few on the end, the minimum percentage.
I'd say that whatever the mental disease or deffect is, there is some portion of people that will always be commiting crime barring some of the more radical control measures (eugenics).

Answer 3

*SURE* crime can be eliminated. It's simple! :D

Many people think the answer to crime is more police. This is not at all true! You can have all the cops in the world, and there will still be crime. Yet, I know how to stop crime without a single cop! The answer is *SO* simple! :D Only when people *CHOOSE* not to commit crimes, will crime stop! *I* choose not to commit any crimes, and therefore I do not commit any crimes! :)

I follow what the bible teaches, and if everybody did, crime would end. Just live completely by THE BOOK! :D However, even the bible says people WON'T follow it, and also says the end will be horrendous, and it will be worse than we can imagine. *I* think the time of the end has already started, in light of all the horrific things that are now happening in the world, and which have never happened before - the terrorism, for example.

The end is neigh! ~Cindy! :)

Answer 4

I don't, as another answerer seems to imply, believe that financial status, per se, has anything to do with committing crimes. There are millions of people without much money who do not go around committing crimes, and there are many crimes commited by people with plenty of money. I believe it has a lot to do with the fact that human beings have vastly different mental attitudes towards themselves, others, and society in general. People have widely different characters, degrees of empathy and levels of conscience. Even the knowledge of severe punishment doesn't deter some, but I do believe that in this country we are not generally being severe enough on FIRST offenders as well as repeat offenders, because although nothing is going to stop a certain number of people, I believe stronger punishments early on would have more effect on jolting a much greater number of people into straightening up and taking a different road.

Answer 5

You might as well ask, 'can people eliminate their animal instincts', look at animals, if you can find one animal that is completely peace loving then, maybe, just maybe it is possible. But in my opinion there are no animals who won't kill for some reason. The question you really want to be asking, is what constitutes as a crime? If I kill a guy because he is threatening to kill one of my family have I commited a crime? If you think yes then the herbivore animal who protects her cubs - is she a criminal?

Okay, rape torture and abuse - those are harder questions to contend with, but again, in the animal kingdom they don't really exist - survival of the fitest etc etc. Rape happens ALL over the animal kingdom, in fact most female animals are taken by some sort of force. Torture, well I think this is more of a human trait and abuse is a means of asserting one's heirarchy.

Answer 6

There will always be people ready and willing to take advantage of others. People selfish enough to see nothing beyond their own gratification, whether I WANT IT NOW refers to rape, robbery at gunpoint or any of the other ways of self-satisfaction. There will always be bullies, people damaged by childhood events or simply with twisted minds. And they will always be a minority, the apple at the bottom of the barrel which creates an unhealthy environment for the rest.

Have you ever seen a city at night, from a height? All those millions of lights twinkling below? Well, there are millions going about their ordinary lives, being decent good-living people, and there may be just a handful creating trouble and mayhem, spoiling it for everyone. Sort of puts it into context. Mostly people are great, but there is always the one or two that aren't.

I don't think we can ever completely eliminate crime, but it is certainly better to reach for the ideal.

Answer 7

In some countries where laws are very strict AND the law enforcement is very honest, crimes are at a minimum but still not completely eliminated. On the contrary, you may abolish all laws, anything committed will not be a crime and technically you will have a place where crime will be completely eliminated.

Answer 8

I do not believe that you can eliminate crime. It is part of nature that people will be self-absorbed and do things that satisfy them without acknowledging the effects on others.

Answer 9

Crime is not part of life . Crime is committed with some unwanted motivatin

Answer 10

The best source of eliminating crime is to PRAY TO GOD AND CALL THE POLICE IF YOU SEE ANY OF THIS GOING ON.