Essay On Prohibition And Crime

The impact of Prohibition was meant to lower crime and corruption by banning high alcoholic content drinks, have a favourable impact of family life, and to reduce crime and turn America into a more civilized society. Many people appeared to believe that the quality of goods would increase because people would focus on work rather than on alcohol.However prohibition led to an increase of crime and social divisions.

Many sources suggest that the most significant impact of prohibition was an increase in organised crime especially in city’s such as Chicago and New York. During the 1920’s one impact of prohibition was the massive increase in the rate of crime in America.It was widely believed that this was due to the illegal Alcohol trade( REF). Millions of dollars were made from trading illegal alcohol. Prohibition saw an enormous rise in organised crime as gangs fought for the control of the illegal liquor trade. This alone increased the rate of crime. Prohibition also led to an …show more content…
The killing took place because Al Capone wanted control of the North Side of Chicago’s liquor trade. The murderers disguised the killings as a police raid.Al Capone was conveniently in Florida at this time, so that the blame would not be shifted to him. This is significant because it changed the way in which people thought about Prohibition. Public support for prohibition was lost because people realised that all of these killings were going on for the control of illegal liquor trade. If alcohol was legalised these killings should come to an end.(REF) My conclusion is that one of the impacts of prohibition is that it affected employment and this was a cause of the Great Depression which resulted in the Wall Street crash.This was significant because the whole world was seriously affected by the