large Western cities‚ Hong Kong’s MTR enjoys a very low crime rate. With a reference to environmental criminology‚ explain why this is the case. Hong Kong MTR is one of the busiest underground transit systems in the world with around 4 million person-time passenger per day. (MTR‚ 2010a) In 2007‚ Hong Kong MTR annual ridership was the seventh highest in the world. (MTA‚ 2010) Meanwhile‚ this is our proud that Hong Kong MTR has a low crime rate‚ it helps to maintain MTR to be one of the famous underground
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effort to determine the causes or correlates of these high or low rates‚ answering the questions below (citing any data you find in these sources): a. Is there any consistent relationship between levels of education and homicide rates? I did Japan and there was no relationship with education and crimes. b. Is there any consistent relationship between economic indicators and homicide rates? If so‚ which ones? They had a low homicide rates because of the high surveillance of the Japanese population.
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Plenty of people including myself have wonder what is it that makes the crime rate in the U.S so much higher than in other countries. Well for starters “the U.S is has the highest gun ownership rate in the world.”The U.S has a statistic violent crime rate of 386.3 per year. 236 More than 31‚000 people a year in the United States die from gunshot wounds .Because victims are disproportionately young‚ gun violence is one of the leading causes of premature mortality in the U.S.Gun violence in the United
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was the reason for the decreased crime rate from the 1990s to the 2000s? The increase in technology in the late 1980s-early 1990s made it easier for gangs and criminals to commit crimes. In the 1990s there was a lot of crime going on and many people though that it was going to keep increasing into the 2000s but to many peoples surprise the crime rate actually decreased. After the 1990s‚ which was a decade full of crime‚ many people thought that the crime rate would increase in the 2000s‚ but
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on certain crimes within two separate territories that are in a relatively close range. Both ranges carry a significant impact on one another and this is our attempt to show this‚ using factual findings. To begin‚ the specific territories are Modesto‚ California and Stockton‚ California‚ both of which are based in two different counties and neighbors one another. They both carry high crime rates; however‚ their economic stability is a huge factor in stabilizing the current crime rates and reducing
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Crime in Norfolk Tina Tompkins AIU Online Crime in Norfolk I chose to analyze the crime rate in Norfolk‚ Virginia. I’ll be moving there if my fiancé is re-stationed to the Naval base there. I was curious about how safe it is to live there‚ but it’s not at all. The crime rate is greater than I could have imagined and that makes me uncertain about having to live there. I believe more should be done about it‚ and below is what I think would make it better. In the city of Norfolk there is
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Anya Sealy High Crime Rate We often hear about the high crime rate on television‚ radio or even newspaper. We hear about Politicians making promises to decrease the crime yet it has still continued to rise. I often ask myself‚ what are the root causes of committing these crimes‚ why do people do what they do? Politicians‚ during there rallies‚ hype up the crowds and make promises to do positive things and get as much support from the citizens as possible‚ leaving the nation with high
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iii Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Crime is as old as mankind itself. Since the biblical crime at the Garden of Eden‚ societies have emerged‚ laws have been created‚ and prohibitions have been declared but violations for forbiddances have continued. Crime has been with us from the very beginning; it has never ceased to disturb men’s living together. Moreover‚ it has become a common societal phenomenon
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January 2008‚ pp 4-20. Do Casinos Really Cause Crime? Douglas M. Walker1 A comment on: Earl L. Grinols and David B. Mustard‚ “Casinos‚ Crime‚ and Community Costs‚” The Review of Economics and Statistics 88(1)‚ February 2006: 28-45. Abstract The Review of Economics and Statistics published “Casinos‚ Crime‚ and Community Costs” by Earl Grinols and David Mustard in February 2006. The authors claim that their analysis of casinos and crime is “the most exhaustive ever undertaken in terms of
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Crime rate is basically defined as the number of Criminal Code offenses in an area reported to the police per 100‚000 population in that area (StatsCan‚ 2016). Crime rates provide an insight about the society and the deviance going in and around it. Crime rates steadily dropped in most countries in the 1990s but the most drastic change seen was in the North American region. According to Understanding why crime fell in the 1990s written by Steven D. Levitt‚ the homicide rates in The United States
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