Crime both indirectly and directly correlates with things that are usually not associated with it. Government directly influences crime by creating laws and enforcing them. The website explains, “According to the liberal version of this separation, accumulation breeds economic prosperity, and prosperity in the economic sphere reduces crime and calls for less punishment in the socio-political sphere”(Bichler and Shimshon). If laws are made but, are not enforced well, people tend to ignore them and do what they please, on the other hand if a crime is punishable by death they are more likely to stray away from it. Even if the penal system becomes more aggressive, desperate, poor, near death, individuals will do what it takes to survive as the article states,”Most people disposed to crime come from the lower strata of society, where the conditions of life are the hardest. This fact means that in order to deter crime, the penal sanction must be worse than the living conditions of these lower strata”(Bichler and Shimshon). Religion usually is an indirect influence on crime. Usually, moral issues are more involved than actual written laws that are visually obvious. The punishment is an internal conflict with oneself and the person is guilty or mentally confused.