The Rise Of Violent Crime In Canada

The Rise of Violent Crime In Canada

Violent crime in Canada is on the rise in Canada as well as the types of

violent crimes being committed against the public. It has been on the rise for

many, many years. I believe and intend to prove in the following essay that it

is societies responsibility for the rise of violent crime with their

unwillingness and inability to effectively deal with the current trend in our

society. In the last few years, a slight dip in violent crime has been noted,

but we must view this with skepticism as no official statistics are available.

As well as this could be an example of society realizing that the Criminal

Justice System is not effectively dealing with the trend of violence in Canada.

This would be true by way of the fact that people are not reporting these crimes

to the police. Generally all the statistics that are gathered and used by the

police are based upon reported crime and no conjecture on unreported crime is

included in these official statistics.

To fully understand what violent crime is, we must first define what

violent crime is in actuality. All to often, people in Canadian society refer to

general wrongdoing as being a crime. A simple example of this is when grocery

stores all raise their prices for certain food products. People then refer very

casually to this act as a crime or that these prices are criminal. Individuals

in our Society often have a fear of being victimized by others, such as the

government, friends and or strangers. This fear is often equated with crime

since all crimes have a winner and a loser or victim as would be the legal term.

This equation often makes involvement in these acts of "crime" a personal thing.

Which results in stronger feelings and sometimes irrational thinking towards the

whole subject of crime. Many times people are not reporting these crimes

because it is their duty in a society to help uphold the laws of ones society.

In actuality, they are reporting the crime for needed compensation whether it be

for medical costs or lost wages. Another reason some people report crimes is

because they are doing it as an avenging act to extract a revenge they could not

otherwise get for themselves. This is a main reason in the fact that police

officers need to investigate reported crimes and determine if a crime had

actually been committed o...

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problems. Social upheavals have occurred in recent times and gender roles have

been obscured causing more problems with the continuity of society. Values and

ideas are being taught to new members of a society which are old and out dated

methods. This could be a causing factor into which violence is increasing. As

frustration increases and a lack of understanding of how to interact among

different people in a society is gone, the problems appear to be mounting and

getting bigger everyday. The social methods of control are falling behind and

chaos is coming out as a leader in our society.

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