Handgun Because the prison population has doubled since 1984, it is really urgent for people to pay attention to the method of decreasing the crime rate. Basically, it is true that "locking people up is obviously not the answer to the crime problem. Training and educating people is one answer." (Los Angeles Time, Joseph Mayfield) But training and educating people to lower the crime rate may only work under some conditions. For instance, this can only …showed first 75 words of 389 total…

…showed last 75 words of 389 total…allowing parole may be a more effective way to solve crime problems. With serious punishment, people may realize that committing crime is worthless. For instance, a drug dealer may gain a lot of money from the selling drug, but what can money do for him, if the drug dealer has to stay prison for rest of his life? Therefore, laws with serious punishment may prevent people from committing crime and effectively lower the crime rate.