Non-violent crimes and society

Annmarie Griffin

This week I was pretty familiar with the topics of non-violent crimes.  I remember when I took white collar crime as a course and was shocked to find that many international crime syndicates are focused on internet crimes.  I learned that accounts were being compromised and account numbers sold to make up some of the most notorious identity theft crimes of our time.  I feel that it is the job of these banks and companies to ensure that our privacy is maintained at all costs.  Security of its  customers should be the their number one priority over making a profit.  If they lose their customers then their ability to make money dwindles with each hit they take.  I feel that as society deals with more and more financial stresses due to a sluggish economy that more and more non-violent criminal acts will take place.  I think that society needs to encourage our law makers to change the sentencing guidelines in this nation.  I was a little shocked to see the statistics on the prison building enterprise that is going on in California.  It almost seems like they enacted that three strike law just to make sure that prison building remains profitable in that state.  I feel that if they send less people to prison the national debt ceiling would lower and the economy would get a huge boost.  This would probably create new jobs and people would look to working rather than committing crimes just to put food on the table.  Desperation to survive would cease.