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The Rise Of Violent Crime In Canada

The Rise of Violent Crime In Canada

Gavin R. Hemeon

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...