Impact Of Crime In The Bahamas

When you think of crime and criminals, you probably think of the dangerous looking characters you see played on television or in the movies. But there are lawbreakers like these in real life, too, and you read about their crimes every week in the newspaper you would think to yourself what exactly, is a crime? According to google.com, crime is “an action or omission which contributes an offence and is punishable by law”. There are many types of crime, crimes such as violent crimes which includes murder, and abuse, financial crimes which deals with stealing and fraud. Also, sex crimes which involves rape and lastly drug crimes which includes drug dealing and trafficking. Crime is common everywhere you go and it is something that every community …show more content…
Three impacts of crime is firstly on the Tourism industry. Tourists comes from all around the world to enjoy our beautiful sun sand and sea but are frequently robbed of the monies and their goods, and are sometimes killed or raped. This impacts the economy of The Bahamas tremendously because when those incidents occur tourist tend to write bad reports on The Bahamas which will cause other people not want to visit The Bahamas and will cause a decrease in profits in the Tourism Industry. Another impact of crime in The Bahamas is Family. Families has lost love ones in severe crimes such as murder which is now one of the most common acts of crime frequently committed here in The Bahamas the effects of murder can leave family in grief and another family losing a love one to jail time. Lastly, Gang Violence is another impact of crime in The Bahamas gang violence leads to homicides, robbery, rape and many more. Gang violence affects the communities and because there can be innocent people who could possibly end up injured or dead because of gang violence or a owner of a store can be robbed by a gang. Gang violence also affects families because of the destruction of their property or theft of personal