Even though Christians believe that God sees no differences in sin, society’s view on different sins or evil acts are ranked. Society sets up a spectrum of morality and evil. …show more content…
One idea is that someone’s life experiences, troubled society around them, or psychological problems can set the tone for the outcome of evil actions that person may commit. When a person sexually, mentally, or psychically abuses someone, murders someone, or rapes someone, it could be a result of past psychological instances where what they did is what originally happened to them. Watching many crime T.V. shows and movies may not be the most realistic source of noting this idea, but after looking a psychological reports one can see that this can be the case. Untreated severe mental illnesses is particularly significant in homicide. Treatment of these illnesses can stop evil acts from happening. Over the last half- century, mental hospital capacity has dwindled, while prison and jail capacity have vastly expanded. Mentally ill prisoners comprise a large fractions of the jail and prison population. According to the American Psychological Association, researchers analyzed 429 crimes committed by 143 offenders with three major types of mental illness and found that 3 percent of their crimes were directly related to symptoms of major depression, 4 percent to symptoms of schizophrenia disorders and 10 percent to symptoms of bipolar disorder. Two- thirds of the offenders who had committed crimes directly related to their mental illness symptoms also had committed unrelated crimes for other reasons, such as poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and substance abuse, according to the research. According to the Bureau of Justice and Statistic, the United States, has more than 1.2 million people with mental illness are incarcerated in jails or prisons. People with mental illnesses also are on probation or parole at two to four times the rate for the general population. People with these mental illness should be taken in to therapy to get help, rather