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...