^follow the money, in a capitalistic society, there is money to be made on creating "chaos", confusion, high incarceration rates, drugs, out of wedlock children, high divorce rates, etc.
The criminal justice system feeds of of that. The law Enforcement, and legislative feed off of that (more laws to be introduced and written, more laws to be broken, more money money in the pocket, more justification for more LE and more laws), the drug industries, legal and illegal feed off of it as well.
Literally billions of dollars, if not trillions and made off of the product of dysfunction.