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Multiculturalism and Crime
多元文化與犯罪
Crime is increasing world wide. There is every reason to believe the trend will continue through the next few decades.
世界范圍的犯罪正在增加。有許多理由讓我們相信這種趨勢在未來的幾十年將會(huì)繼續(xù)。
Crime rates have always been high in multicultural, industrialized societies such as the United States, but a new phenomenon has appeared on the world scene-rapidly rising crime rates in nations that previously reported few offences. Street crimes such as robbery, rape, murder and auto theft are clearly rising, particularly in eastern European countries such as Hungary and in western European nations such as the united Kingdom.
犯罪率在多元文化的工業(yè)化社會(huì)中總是很高，譬如在美國，在世界范圍出現(xiàn)了一種新現(xiàn)象，就是在以前很少報(bào)道有犯罪的國家中，犯罪率在快速增加。類似搶劫、強(qiáng)奸、謀殺和汽車偷盜的街頭犯罪數(shù)量有顯著的增加，尤其是在匈牙利這樣的東歐國家和像英國這樣的西歐國家。
What is driving this crime explosion? There are no simple answers. Still, there are certain conditions associated with rising crime increasing heterogeneity of populations, greater cultural pluralism, higher immigration, demoratization of governments, changing national borders, greater economic growth and the lack of accepted social ideas of right and wrong.
什么造成了犯罪的爆發(fā)呢？這很難簡單回答。然而，有些因素和犯罪的增長是相關(guān)的，比如，人口更趨混雜，文化更具多元性，更多的移民，政府更加民主化，國界的變更，更多的經(jīng)濟(jì)增長，缺乏可認(rèn)同的關(guān)于是非對錯(cuò)的社會(huì)價(jià)值。
These conditions are increasingly observable around the world. For instance, cultures that were previously isolated and homogeneous, such as Japan, Denmark and Greece, are now facing the sort of cultural variety that has been common in America for most of its history.
全世界都可以看到這些因素。例如，原先被孤立的同類文化像日本、丹麥和希臘都正在面臨著文化的某種改變，而這樣的變化在美國的大部分歷史中是司空見慣的。
Multiculturalism can be a rewarding, enriching experience, but it can also lead to a clash of values. Heterogeneity in societies will be the rule in the twenty-first century, and failure to recognize and plan for such diversity can lead to serious crime problems.
多元文化可能是一種有益的、內(nèi)容豐富的體驗(yàn)，但是它也會(huì)導(dǎo)致價(jià)值觀的碰撞。社會(huì)的多樣性將是21世紀(jì)的規(guī)則，未能意識(shí)到這點(diǎn)，沒有準(zhǔn)備好適應(yīng)這種多樣化將會(huì)導(dǎo)致嚴(yán)重的犯罪問題。
