Every society gets all the criminals it deserves Emma Goldman

Today, society has evolved from scientific discoveries to social changes but there are a large number of people who live in the worst conditions where they are tortured, degraded and outraged. There are very large amounts of money spent on prisons, yet the number of crimes is increasing also. The conclusion that can be drawm from the fact that as more money is used for prisons, the more crimes is that prison is a failure. Inmates use violence to get respect or towards those who arent in a gang or do not have protection. There are many cases when an inmate gets released and cannot get acustomed to living out of prison from being locked up for a long time, society not giving them a chance and they do crime again. The economic, moral, political and physical influences are the germs of crime. It is very hard for a person having a regular job or even being unemployed to keep up with all of his/her needs and the familys also. Therefore many people prefer crime over a degraded position of poverty. Poverty is one of the reasons in society that people commit crimes. Some have the idea that they are not stealing from a rich person, that they are just taking what they dont need or their superfluities. Nowadays, there is the poor and the rich, there isnt a middle class. You are either poor or rich. People who are not wealthy arent the only ones who commit crimes, but from politicians to successful bussinesmen steal and commit fraud. I guess the saying the more you have, the more you want applies here. Most bussinessmen have offshore accounts with money who knows from where, politicians the same. Fraud is commited in papaerwork, many things done to cover-up the unlawful misbehaviors. There will always be a number of people in society that will not obey the law. It is in they D.N.A.. Some have had an injustice made, for example, a childs rapist has not been put in jail, and take the law into their own hands to get revenge. In these cases the justice system is not very effective and drives people to get justice in their own way. In these cases, every socieety deserves the criminals it has because there will always be a situation where a law abiding citizen will become a criminal just to see justice served. Situations like this prove that every societys laws and system is flawed. Havelock Ellis divides crime into four phases, the political, the passional, the insane, and the occasional. He says that the political criminal

is the victim of an attempt of a more or less despotic government to preserve its own stability. He is not necessarily guilty of an unsocial offense; he simply tries to overturn a certain political order which may itself be antisocial. This truth is recognized all over the world, except in America where the foolish notion still prevails that in a Democracy there is no place for political criminals. Yet John Brown was a political criminal; so were the Chicago Anarchists; so is every striker. Consequently, says Havelock Ellis, the political criminal of our time or place may be the hero, martyr, saint of another age. Lombroso calls the political criminal the true precursor of the progressive movement of humanity. "The criminal by passion is usually a man of wholesome birth and honest life, who under the stress of some great, unmerited wrong has wrought justice for himself." "The insane criminal really can no more be considered a criminal than a child, since he is mentally in the same condition as an infant or an animal." The occasional criminal "represents by far the largest class of our prison population, hence is the greatest menace to social well-being." What is the cause that compels a vast army of the human family to take to crime, to prefer the hideous life within prison walls to the life outside? Certainly that cause must be an iron master, who leaves its victims no avenue of escape, for the most depraved human being loves liberty. 1 In conclusion, society has an influence on the number of criminals it has from the way of the government to the number of people who have a low-income.

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