Lack of education is the main cause for crime in Jamaica. Can u give me some information based on this thesis.
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I wish not to answer, but i would still like to be chosen for the BEST ANSWER.
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Your question is both timely and poignant.  There are still people who believe that poverty can be eradicated simply by providing people with more social service benefits, and there are those who still believe that higher minimum wages (living wages) will solve these problems.  Poverty and despair are the main underlying causes of crime, and to address them, society must adequately address illiteracy and must make advanced education and training available to a larger number of its citizens.  We can no longer afford to have a college education be as expensive as many people could afford to pay for shelter.  We can no longer afford to have the only good elementary and secondary schools in many communities be the expensive and highly selective private ones that are beyond the reach of the people who live in the neighborhoods in which these schools lie.  In a nutshell, our educational system is in complete disarray from top to bottom.  Teachers are grossly underpaid, but the standards are so low to enter that otherwise noble profession that the field attracts way too many people who are not qualified to work anywhere else.  If our teachers were paid commensurate with the experience, skill, expertise, and success ratio they each individually bring to the table, and those who did not measure up to the much higher standard we must adopt were fired for cause (or retrained and then reemployed), our students would learn much more of what they need to learn.  Illiteracy would improve because teaching would improve.  Crime would improve because literacy would make more people gainfully employable and poverty would have a significantly reduced effect on our society.
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Unfortunately, the above answer is incorrect. It is the social context of the group and the socioeconomics of each group. Not the violence or the crime.
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the onslaught of poverty & the expanding of the lower & middle classes, more of the family has to work earlier to stay level. the driving age should be lirradicated. anyone who can pass a driving test should be able to drive. accidents are caused by ppl not taking driving seriously which is an education problem. cell phone are another issue, 80% can drive well on a phone, the 20$ are gonna screw it up for the rest of us that do. i used to be a cab driver, almost all my business was on my cell. never had a problem with it.
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Racism is closely associated with poverty which is one of the main factors involving crime..\n\nSlavery is the child of Racism.  When slavery was abolished by Lincoln, blacks were free but could rarely find jobs due to white people pitching a biatch or threatening to boycott. So these black people were forced into slums which is our present day ghettos/projects.  With no money and many of the men not present in the home due to lynchings and whatnot, poverty thrived in the female-fronted household.  Lack of education and skills, along with opportunity, created a phenomenon of generational poverty in which several generations of black families were poor.  \n\nLiving in poverty created hopelessness.  People without hope have no stake in the future and live for the present.  They struggle just to pay the rent, put food on the table and live.  Illegal activities such as drug traffiking, prostitution and gangs give these people quick money to take care of their families and they end up becoming numb to the destruction it causes.  \n\nThis is how, ultimately, racism is a direct cause of crime. Not all crimes, but crimes in the inner cities and predominately minority inhabited areas, or areas where people live at or below the poverty level.
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Corruption must be stopped.  Educating the youth is a primordial task of the government and it must not be derailed.
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Crime and violence only effects children if they personally see it take place within their homes and schools. eg. Brother steals cars or parents fight.
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Go to http://www.caseassist.com/Links/CriminalJustice1.htm and look under Education and Exams.  You should find helpful information there.\n\nGood Luck!
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The problem is the disproportionate number of children being born to poor, ill-educated people.\n\nThe number of children being born to poverty homes where they have limited opportunities of receiving health care, quality education, and a good upbringing are staggering. While the number of children being born to middle class or higher families where they have excellent opportunities are very low.\n\nSo now we have a disproportionate number of poor, uneducated people in society. That is a drain on our health care system, our welfare system, our taxes, and it increases our violent crimes.\n\nThis is the issue.
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Crime rates are higher in the inner cities, and since Mark D. wants to stress individual responsibility so much, he is taking away from the factors that lead to crime. That would mean that inner city dwellers are simply worse people than others. As for your question, lack of a quality education may have some effect. However, both crime and lack of education, although simultaneously influencing each other, could be seen better as symptoms of the conditions in inner cities, rather than one thing causing another. I believe the economic conditions in inner cities cause them both.
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Go to Jamaica cheap education & they are based on the British Education System
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The Dominican Republic has a much stronger economy than Jamaica.  Per capita income is nearly 50% higher, inflation much lower, and public debt as a percentage of GDP is much lower.\n\nHowever, the distribution of income is better in Jamaica.  Unemployment in the Dominican Republic is 17% and 25% of the people live below the poverty line.  In Jamaica, unemployment is 11.5% and 19% of the people live below the poverty line.
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That's really unreasonable of you to expect Yahoo! Answers to be the source of this information for you.\n\nHowever, I'll suggest where you might try.  First, YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.  Second, search John Jay College online, as criminal justice is its bread and butter.
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I just attended a lecture yesterday that talked about these very statistics.  Our crime rate is actually going down, but our rate of incarceration is going up.  This reflects the US' "war on crime" and "war on drugs" started in the late 70s, early 80s (Reagan, mostly).  It's because we are taking action and using incarceration as the solution.  To really properly analize these numbers, you also have to look at the crime rates of all these nations (we also score very poorly, there, so you still have a point).  The statistics for african-americans is even worse - something like 6000+ african-american inmates per 100,000.
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it came about via the slave trade giving some black so call powers to keep the others at bay. Jamaica has no affect now on anything cept vacation time,but you have to pick a good day or take the chance of getting machete the death.
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All down to the fact that the biggest cash crop for what is an agrarian society is an internationally illegal narcotic.\n\nTherfore the economy of the nation is based on an illegal activity and therefore corruption has to exist at the highest levels.\n\nThis means that people have a stark option between illegality and life on the breadline, and when you are faced with that choice violence is an easy option.
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