If it is already difficult to develop goals combating the problematic scenarios internationally, imaging adding how crime affects the Millenium goals.
Crime and the 8 Millennium Development Goals
1 Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Crime by its definition cannot be considered any other but an obstacle for the achievement of the total eradication of poverty and hunger in countries around the world. By looking at the Millennium goals report, this very first goal is being redrawn in many areas of the world, Particularly, illustrating the Sub-Saharan African countries which have increased in the income of those who sustained themselves with less than a dollar a day.
Given this fact is evident to link crime as an obstacle and a negative influence on the achievement of the complete eradication of poverty and hunger. For instance, in low income countries where actions of corruption may obstruct the aid provided to the poor people of that region, the aid may not be distributed to the poor people instead crimes of corruption facilitate for some offenders to take benefit and sell the medicine directed to those poor areas for illicit purposes. In a different aspect, people in poor regions like in the sub-Saharan countries understand that the eradication of poverty and hunger is the first step to help minimize crime. Achieving such a complex goal would decrease transnational and domestic crime because more people would have employment opportunity and a better condition of life. For example, a female that engages in human trafficking in a very poor area of Latin America, she may avoid the opportunity of the crime if decent employment is available to better her social condition, if the goal is reached. If criminologists were to conduct a collection of data when linking crime with the eradication of poverty and hunger, it would be better to conduct a victimization survey as a source of data. Mainly because those who are victims of crime are the people in most need, they can express desperation and inform how poverty leads to crime.
2 Achieve Universal Primary Education
Progress in providing Education for all children of the regions of the world is crucial in the prevention of crime. As specify in the millennium goals report, the “children most likely to drop out of school or to not attend at all are those from poorer households or living in rural areas”. (pg11,2007,UN). Also, those are the children who may end up in domestic crimes such as street gangs and delinquency groups. As a result of the lack of education, this can very well be a factor that may obstruct the achievement of providing primary education unless domestic crime is combated, since children may engage in illicit activities and not be interested in being educated. Without education what is being promoted is delinquency, this affects directly the achievement of this goal because it increases the opportunity for crime. Therefore, if such an important goal is achieved if would target negatively the increment of crime and the a generation of future criminal who without education would not have any sense of moral or right or wrong. The report asserts in emphasizing the importance and the need for primary education where crime is very high. Criminologist should thereby conduct for a better source of data research among juveniles in areas where not many attend schools.
3 Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Although a very difficult goal to achieve because of the different cultural values it has shown progress according to the report. Crime, particularly domestic crime can be linked directly in affecting the promotion of this goal. For instance, crimes of domestic violence may diminish and kill or even input fear in many women around the world, these types of crime affect the ideal promotion of equality between genders if it gets very common specially because the victims are afraid to talk or even face societies. Thereby, by achieving this goal the development of women and a balance in societies may be perceived, this factor would help to decrease domestic crime such as domestic violence and promote the growth between families. As criminologists to obtain sources of data for such crimes is very difficult and it would help to carry out surveys since victims are too afraid to report crimes of domestic violence.
4 Reduce Child Mortality
According to the report many children died before they reached 5 years old from causes that can be prevented. Poverty is very much a cause of this, since resources are very scarce where this occurs the most. A crime that may affect the achievement of this goal are drug trafficking, in a very broad manner. A pregnant women engage in the use of illicit drugs may increase the risk for the baby. This crime affects negatively the implementation of this goal, therefore drug trafficking needs to be stopped because is a very broad crime that affects in many ways the achievement of this goal. By the promotion of child mortality a mother is most likely to engage in the life of her baby with a better health and less likely to expose to the use of drugs this is how this goal would be a positive asset for the elimination of crimes with the use o illegal drugs.
5 Improve Maternal Health
Reducing the maternal deaths can avoid crime in a very specific way. A mother who is there for her child throughout the moment he or she is born and his/her childhood, would contribute for that child to experience his mother’s maternal cares, minimizing like this crimes of post partum pregnancy, in which some mothers lose their minds and if not treated their emotional malfunction leads them to commit homicide crimes , killing her babies after they are born. These acts happen often in countries where pregnant women are unhealthy and live under very diminishing conditions. If this goal is achieved more healthy household may be promoted in poor countries were crimes domestically are very common.
6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases
The report is very explicit about the use of injecting drugs as a main source of spreading out HIV and AIDS. Also, the spread of the disease through sex workers directly linked with crimes of human trafficking these are the types of crimes which affect the achievement of this goal. Thereby, making it very difficult to achieve and have success in combating other diseases. Therefore, by achieving this goal we would also be achieving and combating crimes of the use of drugs and the spread of AIDS through those actions, also, human trafficking and the spread of sex workers. We would be accomplishing two goals at once by succeeding in such a goal.
7 Ensure Environmental Sustainability
In this case is very difficult to find a relation between the conservation of the environment and crime in general. What indeed has an effect in preserving the environment is that the laws promoted in countries in order to preserve the biodiversity, the growth of the forests ecosystems, and emissions of greenhouse gases or even the disposal of toxics dumped ocean waters have to be followed and enforced by the governments of countries where these are occurring. Achieving this goal in protecting the environmental sustainability increases in general a better standard of regulating crimes against the environment.
8 Develop a global partnership for development.
Although the development of a partnership for growth would benefit those countries in need I would link it with crime in the sense that Transnational crime can be infiltrated in activities of such a partnership. For instance, money laundering. Money laundering is a crime of opportunity, thereby, if corrupted officials are given certain funds through a partnership in order to provide aid to a series of countries in need, this may lead for money laundering to take place instead of benefiting the country in need. It would be serving as a tool for corruption, specially because there is a lot of politics involve in such a global partnership. This may be a way in which the goal can be affected. On the other hand if this goal is accomplished it would need to develop an extensive monitoring system which can also serve to track down hose officials who use the funds of the partnership for illicit purposes.
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