Each year the crime rate increases. What are the causes of crime and what could be done to prevent this rise in criminal activity?

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rate is considerably increasing nowadays. Despite all attempts of governments and societies to prevent

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phenomenon, it seems solutions can not be successful to reduce the

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unless they consider underlying root causes of

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issue. The

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root cause, and perhaps the most important one, is unemployment, and the consequent financial problems.

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to say, citizens who have not any occupation to the living cost, are more likely to commit a

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, in order to afford their basic needs. To tackle

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problem, the government should attempt to improve the national financial state, so that more companies can employ more people.

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can decrease the number of unemployed citizens. The

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step would be funding those who are unable to find a proper job.

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, the government can assure that almost all people can pay their needs, and do not require committing a

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. These steps can, significantly, reduce the

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rate in the society.

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low financial balance is considered the main reason for

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, many people, especially adolescents, commit it because of peer pressure. Teenagers, usually, tend to rely on their friends rather than their families.

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, if their surrounding people persuade him or her to commit criminal activity, it would be seriously hard for juveniles

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it. Many juvenile crimes, like graffiti and vandalism, are performed simply under pressure of criminals’ friends. For eliminating

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, parents and schools are responsible to make youngsters aware of

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kind of pressure and educate them to avoid

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friendships.

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, a significant number of criminals have

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been encouraged to

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by media violent contents, which have noticeably increased recently. A good solution would be dwindling production of these programs.

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, TV channels and other composers should label all shows with age-related warnings. Parents,

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, can control, more effectively, what their children can watch, to minimise the negative impacts. To sum up,

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is a highly important issue for every society. The government, media, schools and families should work together to tackle the problem by removing the main contributing factors,

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as the poverty resulted from lack of job opportunity, juvenile circumstances and media impacts.