英語翻譯
Crime is partly a result of bad material conditions:certainly it is most prevalent among people whose lives are not satisfactory in obvious ways---people without a settled home,with parents separated or divorced,victims of various kinds of misfortune,including poverty and lack of education.But bad social conditions,in the obvious material sense,can hardly be accepted as the main explanation for a rapid increase of crime in the 1960s and 1970s.There are after all fewer people suffering from the bad conditions than before,and it is much easier to make a very satisfactory living by honest work now than it was forty years ago,on indeed at any previous time .The problem is shared with the rest of western civilization,and beyond it .