How far do you accept the belief that if crime is rising, it is because people today lack a clear understanding of right and wrong?

I totally disagree with this statement, and therefore feel that crime is not rising as a result of today's generation lacking an understanding of what is right and wrong. Rather, I feel that the apparent rise in crime in our society can be attributed to a number of other and notably less derogatory factors. Firstly, the nature of reporting crime has transformed tremendously over the past years, thus appearing to inflating crime figures to all …

…conclusion, I believe that in today's current society, crime is not rising as a result of today's generation lacking an understanding of what is right and wrong. Rather, statistical slander may be the recent culprit of apparent rises in crime, rather than the changing values of right and wrong that society holds. Nowadays, it is much easier and faster to collect data, in order to produce a myriad of statistics that can be easily manipulated.