雅思写作：控制小孩的犯罪天性

　　有些人认为犯罪是人的天性，而有些人认为我们可以在小孩小的时候停止他们的这种倾向，你有什么看法?

　　Crimes undermine human society. Reasons for committing a crime are variedand complex, so we could not say that violation of law is just human nature andthat people’s tendency to break the law could be stopped when they areyoung.

　　We are still not sure what causes people to commit a crime. The reasonseems to be clear in cases in which a thief steals money to make a living or buythings normally unaffordable. Many thieves, when caught and interviewed, revealthat they come from poor families and have very little education. Therefore wecould establish a relation between less privileged family background and lowlevel of education. Many people used to believe that parents could teach theirchildren the harms of wrongdoing by showing them the consequences of such actionand the obligation of complying with social norms. Such method works for mostchildren who are aware of what they are doing and what would happen from theiraction. But we also learn from news or other sources that many high-levelofficials take bribes or abuse power for their own benefit. Such people withhigh income and good education clearly know what they are doing and the possibleconsequences. Such crimes would not have happened if tendency to commit crimescould be stopped when people were young.