Punishing anti-social behavior does not get to the root of the problem: social and economic inequality.
Discuss.

Since a few years, the press underscored that some behaviors were unpleasant and were characterized of anti-social. This means that laws and customs are exceed by rowdy youngsters in general. Many observations in the press show that it is a growing phenomenon which is a real problem for the country in which occurs. Nowadays the main solution is just to punish. That's why it is legitimate to ask if punishing those acts is the only way to solve this problem by it's root. Few solutions are mentioned but among all of them, one seems most effective, it consists in reducing economic and social inequalities. This essay is going to argue that the solution of this issue resides in the best balance of both elements.

To start with, we have to define what does “anti-social behavior” mean. The main definition is that it is a catch-all term to describe neighborhood disturbing. In fact, it encompasses all behaviors that are against the law.

A few people think that the solution of anti-social behavior is to find the rowdy youngsters who disturb the life of others and to punish them by putting them into a jail, or make them paid for what they did. Of course it is going to be effective in a way, because when you punish someone, no matter how, it discourages him to repeat what he did. Nevertheless in this case of anti-social behavior, it concerns so much people that it is going to be difficult to punish them all. Nevertheless, somehow, it is essential to punish when someone transgress the law, it is part of the law but it is not sufficient. If the struggle against anti-social behavior wants to be efficient, it needs to be added with the reduction of economic and social inequalities.

Punishing someone who had an antisocial behavior is not going to fully solve the problem. In fact, by punishing him, it is just going to strengthen his anger because he would feel misunderstood. As for me the reason why they act like this is to show how difficult are their lives and to make us understand that they want a changing in their way of living. So if you punish them without looking at what they want, they will come back and do the same. Indeed as we can notice, people who acts like this are the poorest part of the population. When you born in a family where there is no money it's hard succeed in life. The collapse of communities is one of the main reason of this issue, because young people from this part of population doesn't have example or education necessary to grow up properly. That's why we can, in a way, understand their attitude, because when young people doesn't have money it is nearly comprehensible to steal or to destroy things.

To conclude we can confirm that the struggle against anti-social behaviors will be more efficient with the use of punishment and reduction of inequalities. After that there won't be any differences anymore and no reasons to continue. It would be interesting to study the evolution of state's attitude in the next years.