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

In recent years, the percentage of
crime
rate
has been increased due to several
reasons
.
However
,
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the following paragraphs will
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the causes and how to overcome these
reasons
and find the most effective ways to reduce
this
rate
.
To begin
with, it is commonly believed that using
drugs
and narcotic substances will lead to
development
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and increase the
rate
of
crime
because
,
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these people who used
drugs
frequently or
addictive
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people
they
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are not truly conscious.
For example
, the addictive person may make lots of crimes to get extra money to be able to buy more
drugs
.
Although
, we live in an age when many of us are believe that the
criminal
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scene in lots of
movies
will encourage and contribute
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raising the criminal
rate
. The younger generation
start
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to imitate what they see in these
movies
.
Also
, they try to act like the actor and simulate these action scenes
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reality. Some scenarios of these
movies
describe the culprit as a victim and give so many
reasons
to gain
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empathy from audiences.
As a result
, we need to find solutions to overcome
this
increasing
of
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crime
rate
. One of these strategies
are
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we
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need to control and prevent using
for
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drugs
and narcotics material to eliminate the main reason
of
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rising the
rate
of
crime
.
In addition
, we should monitor what our children see and we need to make an effective discussion with them to illustrate and explain that , there is no excuse to do
crime
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. To conclude, after
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both
reasons
and some effective solutions to reduce the
rate
of
crime
we can say that we need to restrict and prohibit using of
drugs
to reduce
crime
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rate
and we should make an effective discussion with our children and monitor what they see in the
movies
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