d economic dislocation, Victorian morality was sweeping across America. It was a time of intense spirituality. It was not until the conscious rejection of Victorian morality during the “Roaring Twenties” that crime went up. This was an era when Sigmund Freud’s views were coming into vogue among “thinking” Americans: people weren’t evil, just misguided or mistreated, or they required better environments. The crime rate did not decline again until the Great Depression, a time of people banding together in the face of crisis. Therefore, crime was in large part caused by a breakdown of morality. Since 1965, the crime rate has steadily risen. In the same period, faith a moral integrity has waned. We have told people there are no absolutes and that they are not responsible for their own behavior. They are simply victims of a system that isn’t working anymore and they don’t have to worry about it because the government is going to fix it for them (Watt).When people are living only for themselves, not for any moral reason or purpose, fulfilling individual desires and gratification, then crime and drug abuse become inevitable. There is no moral consensus, and without a moral consensus, there can be no law. There has never been a case in history in which a society has been able to survive for long without a strong moral code. Recovering our moral code is the only way our society can survive. Recovering what our nation was founded on is the only way the crime rate will reasonably drop. ...
