The US has a Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) supplied by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and is compiled from reports supplied by 15,000 law enforcement agencies.

The UCR does not supply information from business aka white collar crimes of the upper socioeconomic classes because they are handled by upper quasi-judicial bodies therefore avoid being stigmatized as criminals and the report is focussed primarily on crimes, committed by young people from lower socioeconomic classes.

The statistics on crimes are considered one of the most unsatisfactory of all social data available.

This is due in part to various reasons such as :

• a large proportion of crimes go undetected and not reported
• reports are made but not recorded and manipulated by politicians.
• views of crime by people are different and may not be considered important to be reported.
• Justice department studies reveal that less than half of all crimes are reported to the police.
• comparison of crimes reported by victims reveals a higher incidence of crimes.
• a crime may be considered too private or personal.
• no faith in the police services.
• police insensitivity.
• slow juducial bureacracy

Implementing programs is hotly debated between *hardliners* who want tougher judges and unshackled police and the *softliners* who say crime is a product of society conditions and lean towards improving *community relations* with the police and improve rehabilitation over punishment meanwhile they are also trying to deal with the population explosion in the prisons.

Penitentiaries and jails were set up to provide a place "where a criminal might repent and then resolve to follow a law abiding life" but the statistics and high rate of *recidivism* (relapse into criminal behaviors) reveals this idea of rehabilitation is NOT working for some criminals.

A gloomy view of crime-fighting programs is taken up by many people of todays society and question if anything really works. Ordinary citizens leave the decision making process to more able-bodied professionals but it is within any citizens capacity to offer suggestions to their local government official if they have an idea or suggestion that might be of help.

Society sends our criminals off to prison or jail for a crime and they do their sentence. They are cared for with tax dollars. At the end of their sentence, they are quietly released back into society or released early, on good behavior. They don't have to serve their FULL sentence. Is that really fair to the victim(s) or the people?

What if crimes committed had a extra punishment such as a specified or *Life* term (dependent upon severity of the crime) to provide payments to victims upon release from a correctional insititute? would this help *deter* and *lower* crime rates? What if the Police were able to give such fines out automatically, if a criminal is caught in the act of the crime? being forced to enforce payments would earn addiitional financial fines and/or return to jail.

Money makes the World go round. Why not use it not just for living but for punishment too?

Governments have access to large resources. I am sure they can get the specifics on the needed research to be done to investigate the possibilities of such an endeavor. Can you imagine living in such a world? Read more --> here.

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