First off, there are thousands of ways people can commit crime and some crime in my opinion stick out way more than others, especially one. The main reason I think crime is caused these days is that children have no role models, which are broken families. When families are broken apart most people can take it two different ways. The first way would be make the best of your life even though that some family members may not be around. The second way, which we mostly see these days, is that the parents are divorced and the kids have adult role models and end up getting in the wrong type of activities. When children only have one parent to depend on this turns into maybe advantage of them and not respecting the parents because they feel they will have no consequences because both parents are not around to punish them for bad behaviors. Some researchers from the University of Pennsylvania such as Cynthia Harper and Sara S. McLanahan have done some research on youth in broken homes and stated “Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two-parent families” (Harper 1). They are simply stating that young men need father role models because they are looking up to their father and watching what he does and how he shows affection and respect to the mother of their children. But we often find that over half the people that are in prison today come from broken families from single parent house