What are the causes of crime in the Philippines?

Answer 1

the economic factors, poverty. the family structure, substances abuse, social environment, increasing rate of employment, domestic violent cause of increasing unemployment high ambition want to achieve luxuries life and technology advancements

Answer 2

The real reasons for crime, as I pointed out, are philosophical. There are three areas of North American philosophy which contribute to crime. The first is the worship of freedom at all cost, the celebration of disrespect and the encouragement of rootlessness. A part of this worship of freedom is the encouragement of rootlessness. In most of North America we no longer have connections to a place and its people. People and places are as interchangeable as parts in a modern machine. And so we have produced a society that has about as much heart and soul as a modern machine. The usual constraints and support of friends, neighbours and relatives is eroding away to almost nothing in some areas. There is a direct correlation between higher crime rate and higher rootlessness the world over.

The second is the destruction of meaningful work in order to have higher profits and greater efficiency. And the third is the transformation of our young people into market targets whose main role in society is to be self-indulgent consumers. These are all part of the great American way of life in the last half of the 20th century. They have been the engine that has lifted our continent to spectacular levels of materialism. There is, however, a price to pay and that price is also soaring to spectacular levels. The U.S. prison population doubled between 1980 and 1990 and the psychological and spiritual price tag is even higher. We can expect an increasingly expensive and dreadful future if we do not address the real philosophical roots of this malaise.

Our family lived for a year near a village in Bavaria. I enjoyed exploring the countryside on foot or on my mountain bike along paths through farm, village and forest. All of my ramblings were on private land and yet I never saw a "no trespassing" or "private -
keep out" sign, nor did I see a fence to keep people out. There was no vandalism and virtually no littering. The philosophy of the countryside and society could be summed up by the word "respect" . respect for the landscape, respect for grandparents and traditions, respect for grandchildren and the future and respect for the family. During our stay in Germany, Vice-President Quayle was lamenting the decline of "family values". It seemed ironical that America was world champion at destroying family values for philosophical reasons which would have never occurred to him.

Even in the "primitive" eastern Nigerian villages where I taught from 1963-65, respect was the dominant philosophy for village, landscape, family, extended family, elders and children. They were poor farmers. The Germans were rich farmers yet they were both respectful and almost crime free.

Then it occurred to me that North America, particularly the United States is founded on disrespect. Disrespect has been the intellectually good attitude from George Washington, Paul Revere through to the cowboys and Rambo. Most current American heroes are rebels and iconoclasts making monkeys of the establishment. Disrespect is admirable and liberating. Of course, this is a good thing within reason compared to submission to authoritarian despotism. However like most things in life it is a double-edged sword. When is enough enough and too much too much? If a pinch of salt improves the soup, does that mean a pound is better? My point is that the worship of freedom and disrespect in an extreme way may be part of the cause of our malaise.

Perhaps a more important factor is the destruction of meaningful work. If there were meaningful, decent-paying jobs within walking distance or a short public transportation ride for the lower income and poor people of our inner cities, crime would drop dramatically. The young males of all races would have hopeful and challenging options to replace drug dealing and drive-by shootings. Hand-outs will not help. Job opportunities will produce dignity and self-respect and cut crime to negligible levels. This will not be easy to accomplish in our laissez-faire, buccaneering, capitalist system. Socialism would be just as bad or worse. We need to start talking about American capitalism and real jobs.

Answer 3

There are several causes of crime in the Philippines. The high rate of unemployment and poverty are the main causes among other factors.

Answer 4

basta hulihin lang yan cila