investigate social issue
ASSIGNMENT 4: Final paper Investigate a Social Issue
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June 07th , 2014
SOC 100
Instructor: Professor NAZER
In recent years, the relationship between crime and economy crises has been highly studied by economies and has sparked up interest among members of the general public, the media, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. Although there are many conflicting ideas on how the economy downturn affects crime rates, it is reasonable to study how crime rates have varied in the past and recent years. Taking a closer look at the current economy trend in the United States, both federal and state budgets have been affected as well as individuals. Many people have been laid off their jobs because the state cannot allocate money for them to be paid. Hence, many such people look for other means to raise money for survival including property theft and other related crimes. It is therefore convenient to say that more people are willing to commit crime in a declining economy so as to meet their daily needs, though it could be a difficult hypothesis to test. Bad economics leads to property theft and robberies as criminals steal items they cannot afford. Since 2008, there has been an increase recession in the United States as said by data from police records. However, the FBI in 2010 release records of a drop in violent crimes but not property theft and robberies. This can be seen on the media reports and even major adverts on the streets such as bus stops where a particular figure is been put up on the board as wanted. Another example can be seen in such stores as the gas station where usually a printed picture of an individual is shown as wanted. Usually, people arrested for committing robbery crimes are mostly jobless. For example, statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistic shows that, since 2010, the rate of unemployment has been reducing slowly. In May of 2014, the rate was at 6.3 percent but the number of
By
June 07th , 2014
SOC 100
Instructor: Professor NAZER
In recent years, the relationship between crime and economy crises has been highly studied by economies and has sparked up interest among members of the general public, the media, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. Although there are many conflicting ideas on how the economy downturn affects crime rates, it is reasonable to study how crime rates have varied in the past and recent years. Taking a closer look at the current economy trend in the United States, both federal and state budgets have been affected as well as individuals. Many people have been laid off their jobs because the state cannot allocate money for them to be paid. Hence, many such people look for other means to raise money for survival including property theft and other related crimes. It is therefore convenient to say that more people are willing to commit crime in a declining economy so as to meet their daily needs, though it could be a difficult hypothesis to test. Bad economics leads to property theft and robberies as criminals steal items they cannot afford. Since 2008, there has been an increase recession in the United States as said by data from police records. However, the FBI in 2010 release records of a drop in violent crimes but not property theft and robberies. This can be seen on the media reports and even major adverts on the streets such as bus stops where a particular figure is been put up on the board as wanted. Another example can be seen in such stores as the gas station where usually a printed picture of an individual is shown as wanted. Usually, people arrested for committing robbery crimes are mostly jobless. For example, statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistic shows that, since 2010, the rate of unemployment has been reducing slowly. In May of 2014, the rate was at 6.3 percent but the number of
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