Impact Of The Economy On The Criminal Justice System

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One trend that will continue to have a major impact on the criminal justice system is the economy. Unemployment rates keep climbing and will continue to climb over the years. But with lower unemployment rates there are lower crime rates. (Siegel, 2011) Economy will always be the most major trend to effect crimes. People commit robbery because they cannot afford something due to lack of jobs. Property crimes are the most committed crimes since the economy has gone bad. (Rosenfeld) The majority of crimes go down when the economy goes down but property crimes are the major crime committed with the economy downfall. One of the reasons property crimes is the most popular when the economy is down is because the criminal sales the items to get money

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