Crime Reduction Strategy: Crime Rate

Education Levels Dept: Voices from the political left tend to point to an aging population, rising education levels and overall standard of living as the main drivers behind this fortunate drop, according to CBC. Elements of all of these explanations are certainly a part of any effective crime reduction strategy with the exception of almost all forms of harsher sentencing, which global evidence suggests does little other than waste money and canada's crime rate has steadily dropped since its peak in the early 1990s. But grasping at the usual explanations could waste a golden opportunity to make Canada even safer for the longer term. Voices from the right, meanwhile, tend to credit increasing security measures known as "target hardening" that make it more difficult to commit crime, policing programs that focus on the "hotspots" where crime is shown to occur and the deterrent effects of harsher sentencing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.