Why is there so now much crime in the uk compared with 1950's?

Answer 1

it's down to various factors.
society moving away from religion.
banning corporal punishment, in schools & in the justice system.
the break down of ( extended ) family life.
the population growth without any firm controls & our porous borders.
instead of having our own home grown criminals to worry about & a prison system that hasn't matched the population growth, we now allow in all comers.
where they used to all call themselves asylum-seekers a few years ago, now they can say they're economic migrants, to bend the rule of entry.
they know the police are under-staffed & the justice system is failing, easy pickings for criminals with their scams, cons & the rest.

sorry but the UK already had enough problems with a failing NHS, an under-stress transport system & insufficient housing for our own population, why take in even more people to add to it?
rant over.

simply, population growth with an inadequate justice system.
there's no deterrent, it's all about human rights & being PC than just being guilty or not guilty any more.

Answer 2

The benefit system - It allows people to live and eat without having to work. This lack of work frees up their time thus allowing them to commit crime.

Drug Abuse - people will commit crime in order to pay for their next 'hit'.

Overcrowding - too many people squashed into too little space.

Scrapping the Secondary Modern school system - lower achievers used to be channeled towards apprenticeships, but now those people just end up on the streets. The current school system only values academic achievement, which not everybody is capable of.

Answer 3

Crime WAS prevalent in the 1950's. The difference today is that we have a 24/7 largely irresponsible media in which fiction too often crosses the line into 'fact'.

Answer 4

prison was feared........DREADED!! in the 1950s. it was a harsh environment, and sentence's reflected the crime. your only human rights were food and water. a roof over your head a bed to sleep on and medical care. any thing on top of that was a privilege that had to be earned. it worked very well indeed! i dont know why we dont silence the liberal idiots and go back to it.

Answer 5

Because back then and right through until about 1990 the police dealt with you without the kid gloves....most people were scared of getting arrested as you were thrown and knocked about, not like now as i believe you get tea and biscuits now when you are arrested and a feather pillow in your designer cell...also the justice system is a laughing stock letting criminals off with lean sentences while people who owe things like council tax get hard labour..there are far too many people ready to stand up for criminals rights and victims get forgotten

Answer 6

So zero thinks that the US has crime under control then?

Many reasons for the increase some of them natural like population growth.

It should also be remembered that we know a whole lot more about crime than people did in the fifties.

Answer 7

Because life was so much simpler then. . You were brought up to respect others especially teachers, bosses,etc. and if you did wrong you expected to get punished for it and accepted the punishment. Probably got punished in school and then again from your parents.Didn't do us any harm but taught us not to do wrong again.Nowadays everyone gets off with doing wrong and seem to go on to do worse.Its crazy.

Answer 8

Probably a combination of a lot of things including but not limited to:

1) More people
2) Larger % of the people are jerks
3) Better reporting of crimes

Answer 9

no discipline to youngsters nowadays.they are not the main culprits but if parents did their job properly crime would be on the decrease.criminals get a slapped wrist victims get nothing so where is law and order?

Answer 10

there are more people now than the 50's
plus theres actually more things around to steal than the 50's,
and I guess having just come out of a war even the yobos had had enough of fighting!