Abstract
Recent times have seen intense concern expressed over the prevalence of crime. In annual surveys conducted from 1972 through 1982, U.S. citizens were asked, “Is there more crime in this area than there was a year ago, or less?” Each year save one, the most common response was “more crime,” indicating the belief that crime has been an ever-increasing phenomenon in this society (Gallup, 1982). A 1980 survey indicated that at least 70% of the respondents reported taking at least one set of precautionary measures when going out of their residence (Research and Forecasts, Inc., 1980). Consistently, crime and lawlessness have been mentioned in surveys as one of the three most important social issues of our times (Roper Organization, 1982).
Time marched on and eventually modern humans—homo sapiens sapiens—emerged, creatures who, to an extraterrestrial observer, must seem to be more than a little perverse. Unlike no other animal, we wage war on each other. We knowingly exploit limited resources in our environment and seem to expect that our profligacy can go on forever. And we choose to ignore deep chasms of injustice, consciously inflicted both between nations and within nations. In a sense it is humans who rule the world: our extraordinary creative intelligence gives the potential to do more or less anything we want. But, an extraterrestrial observer may wonder, isn’t the ruler just a little bit crazy?
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Gottshalk, R., Davidson, W.S., Mayer, J., Gensheimer, L.K. (1987). Behavioral Approaches with Juvenile Offenders. In: Morris, E.K., Braukmann, C.J. (eds) Behavioral Approaches to Crime and Delinquency. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0903-1_15
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