Causes_For_Violent_Crimes

Causes For Violent Crimes Causes for Violent Crimes The political right believes that the root cause of violent crime is bad genes or bad morals. Not so, says the left. The root cause of violent crime is bad housing or dead-end jobs. I believe that while doing something about the causes of violence surely requires a political ideology, the only way we can determine what those causes are in the first place is to check our ideologies at the door and to try to keep our minds open as wide, and for as long, as we can bear. I realize that this is not easily done but, if you give it a try I think that you will find that violence does not have one root cause. Rather, violence has many tangled roots. Some grow toward the left and some grow toward the right. We have to find the largest ones, whichever way they grow, and only then can we debate how to cut them off. Gary Ross, in his article “Moving Beyond Blame” (1999), agrees that there are many contributing factors in violence today: These include changing family structure; the breakdown of communities, villages, and neighborhoods; cynicism about government and social violence, factors, violent, families, about, author, people, include, grow, family, drug, causes, cause, writes, way, video, root, response, one, media, life, lack, guns, find, father, easy, crime, children, behavior, bad, article, youth, weapons, unemployment, try