GOVERNMENT SPONSORED PROGRAMS

Why Criminals Should Not Benefit From Government Sponsored Programs?

Why Criminals Should Not Benefit From Government Sponsored Programs

Criminals are the people who have committed a crime and where there is a crime there is a victim. It means criminals victimize the society with their evil deeds. Government is representative of the society. Then, how awkward it will be if the Government start giving them benefits by government sponsored programs. Therefore, it is quite rational that criminals must not benefit from government sponsored programs. This paper discusses why criminals should not benefit from government sponsored programs.

A consistent feature of American urban life has been a preoccupation with crime. Since the nineteenth century, both formal study and public opinion have marked the urban environment as uniquely criminal and dangerous. Although, the social problems of the city have long been a staple of social scientific research, historians have begun studying crime only comparatively recently. These ancient investigations, however, have yielded insights into the development of urban crime and crime control with value for historians and for contemporary policymakers. (Travis, 2005)

Government-sponsored benefits are provided for individuals based on their age, need, or other criteria. Each year the federal government expends billions of dollars on entitlement programs. Some are funded by special taxes or employer contributions, but many are paid for with taxpayers' dollars. As urban criminal justice systems grew more complex in the first half of the 20th century, they inevitably grew larger. As a result, more people than ever found themselves in contact with the formal institutions of criminal justice. Yet even the enthusiastic advocates of crime control in this era could not have foreseen the enormous increase in the size of the criminal justice system since the 1980s. Indeed, it has already been noted that a key component to crime-control philosophies was crime prevention. As late as the 1960s, advocates of crime-prevention programs envisioned a time when crime would be successfully controlled, perhaps even eliminated. Recent decades have seen a return to pessimism and retributive justice. The battleground is the inner city, whose isolation has encouraged popular support for a punitive approach. At the close of the twentieth century, it is important to recognize that change, for better or for worse, is in our own hands. Responsibility for violence and crime in our cities cannot be shifted away from the conditions and human actions that have helped to create them. (Arco, 2001)

Government welfare programs represent an effort on behalf of nation-states and international organizations to provide assistance to people who are otherwise unable to take advantage of market relations. It will be quite strange if the benefit of these welfare programs is given to the people who are the enemy of the society.

Welfare programs emerged as a public (meaning government-funded) phenomenon following historical periods of industrialization in Western nation-states during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and among Asian, Latin American, and African states in the twentieth century, following the decline of colonialism. Prior to industrialization, explanations for poverty and other forms of ...