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Increasing Crime In The 1990's Summary

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The text indicates that increased reliance on prisons can only account for one third of the decrease in crime in the 1990’s. This indicates that although it is a help, it is not the cure. To say if this is viable, one would have to weigh the actual cost of imprisonment per person per year which the text indicates is $25,000, to a numerical number that would equal what crime takes from society. This is almost impossible to accomplish because not all crimes are equal.
The authors feel that there is a greater reason that the crime rates decreased in the 1990’s, they feel that the legalization of abortion had a large impact on decreasing crime rates. They believe that because often women that had abortions would not be very good mothers, they would have children that became criminals as adults. Therefore because the 1990’s was the first decade that would have had adults after the 1970’s decision to legalize abortion, legal abortion decreased crime rates. …show more content…

I feel there are many reasons why crime rates decreased, the increase in prisons, the increase in policemen, more innovative policing strategies, and less people that were inclined to commit crime. I do not feel that the authors have expressed a great deal of their own biblical perspective in this book. In my opinion, this perspective may be true based on some formula, but there is nothing biblical about it. God did not intend for children to be aborted. God also did not intend for children to grow up neglected, abused, or thrown away as some of these mothers may have done. I also do not feel that as a society we should lock every criminal away, even God forgives the

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