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Why Poverty leads to Crime – A Research about the “Social Structure Theory” By Daniel Rottlaender CJ200013 Professor Gene Overall 10/12/2014 Abstract: The purpose of this research is to explain and proof the Social Structure Theory, which says that poverty leads to crime. The first part of the paper contains an explanation what the Social Structure Theory is as well as the different schools of thought the theory provides. The second part of the paper is supposed to proof the theory by using statistics and theories why poverty leads to crime. The final paragraph provides a summary and a recommendation what the government should do in order to decrease crime rates. In order to write my essay I used different types of research.
(1984). Corporation of Corruption. Charles C. Thomas Publisher. Springfield, Illinois. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 3 This book talks about the illicit transactions in drugs by organized crime.
This is the “broken window” policing strategy introduced by Police Commissioner Bratton under the administration of Mayor Giuliana (Francis). In turn, the broken window policy is based on an interesting sociological experiment. In 1969 Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford University Sociologist, took a car with some sminor damage, torn license plate, left the doors open, and left it in the Bronx, at that time a very crime infested section of New York. Within 10 minutes it was being robbed and in three days it was a hulk on cinder blocks. Zimbardo then took a similar car to Palo Alto, California, an upscale area, but this time there was no damaged license plate and the doors were closed and locked.
An article published by the A-level law review, written by Ian Yule and entitled ‘Murder most foul?’ has two very important statements in the opening paragraph from people or groups who have first-hand knowledge of what is failing the British legal system when it comes to the decisions regarding cases of murder and voluntary manslaughter. Ken Macdonald QC, the director of public prosecutions, stated that ‘There should be degrees of homicide, not just murder and manslaughter but three or four degrees’. It is evident that our existing homicide laws are in urgent need of reform when even the Director of public prosecutions criticises them. The second is from the Law Commission itself in 2004 published a report relating to the partial defences for murder declaring ‘the present law of murder in England and Wales is a mess’ and also in the same report the Law Commission said that there was ‘a pressing need for a review of the whole law of murder rather than merely some partial defences’. The current law serves to confirm and underline how seriously flawed the present law on homicide is.
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The book, which I choose to analyze for my paper was Dealing Crack: The social world of streetcorner selling by Bruce A Jacobs . The book goes into detail on the lives of crack dealers and tries to attempt reasoning as to why they do it. What their life styles are like and how lawmakers and the police react to what they do. In this paper I am going to analyze the rational theory to the differential association theory in attempt to see which one is more effective in proving how crime is committed and what policies work the best for the public based on the styles of these theories. One of the major theories portrayed in the book was rational choice.
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MALISSA HULME CMY 3705 29 AUGUSTUS 2011 SEMESTER 2: MODULE 1 ASSIGNMENT 01 FULLY DISCUSS REPEAT VICTIMISATION OR “VICTIM PRONESS” OF A PERSON, PLACE, VEHICLE OR TARGET 1) Explain The Statement Crime in South Africa poses one of the wounds that stain the face of post-apartheid in South Africa. Homicide, rape and indecent assault of women, men, and children and the elderly, as well as violent house and business robberies has conduced to multiple psychological traumas and distress, as well as a weakened sense of individual and community security within the South African population. The occurrence of crime in Cape Town between 1993 and 1997 indicates that 17 per cent of victims had been victimised more than once, either by the same crime type or another type of crime. This phenomenon is important to record as it raises a number of questions about crime prevention and how limited resources can be targeted most effectively. Repeat victimization occurs when the same person, household, place, business, vehicle or other target suffers multiple criminal incidents over a specified period of time (usually measured over a 12 month period).