Nowadays, the problem of increasing crime rates is becoming more and more urgent. Overall, there are many reasons for it - poverty, psychological problems, difficult childhood, addiction problems, as well as social hardship and negative environmental conditions. From my point of view, to solve these problems, the government should focus on preventing the root causes - helping difficult teenagers, pay more attention to the environment, help with employment and socializing people, as well as pay more attention to people suffering from addictions.