There has been an increase prevalence of criminals across the world for the last few decades. Some people believe that increased imprisonment or stringent rules and regulations is the ideal way to mitigate this issue while others emphasis the importance of a proper education system in this regard. According to my view, the role of education is more significant to establish violent free or controlled society in a long term.
On the one hand, many people tend to commit criminals as a result of a lack of fundamental human qualities such as empathy, kindness, integrity. Obviously, a proper education system enables people to enhance these characteristic and be important citizens. In this sense, the role of religious education is indispensable. Thus, governments should encourage especially young inhabitance to engage in religious education in order to improve their moral values and control violence in a long term.
Moreover, when people are aware about detrimental consequences of violent behavior, they may be reluctant to engage in such activities. These kinds of educational programs should not only be oriented on adults but also on children to prevent them from doing criminals and establish sustainable peaceful environment.
Contrary to the above view, there is another opinion that the best way to alleviate criminal behavior is increased imprisonments. Certainly, punishments are act as deterrence that directly and indirectly compel people to be law-abiding. However, it is questionable the effectiveness of enforcing such kinds of strict measures in long term controlling criminals. Because punishments never let people develop good perspectives and attitude which are incredibly important to enhance peacefulness in society.