Many people try to assume that a person’s environment makes them who they are. If an individual is from a impoverish area that experiences high crime rates, that same person is expected to continue the same criminal acts in their community. However, someone from a neighborhood with better resources and more prestige are excluded in being surrounded and/or participating in criminal acts. In this paper, I plan to explore different studies to examine the relationship between poverty/social class/ SES and crime.
Individual’s social class creates an image for people in society to believe that it is one out of many factors that contribute to crime. However, a study suggests that the relationship between social class and crime are weakly related …show more content…
As expected, someone at a prestige level would assume impoverish people would commit more crimes because of limited resources that influence their choice in wrongdoing. In addition, it is known for African-Americans to live in poverty with high crime rates but imagine a change in location but the same crime rates. This is a study that explores the effects of racial composition on crime rates, but give equal weight to the opposite violent crime rate itself could cause a change in racial composition (Liska, Logan, & Bellair, 1998). The research takes place in the suburbs from a national sample of 1,604 suburban cities with more than 2,500 citizens and used the Uniform Crime Reports for crime data. In conclusion, the relationship between violent crime and the racial composition of suburban communities reflects both the effect of racial composition on violent crime and the effect of violent crime (specifically robbery) on racial composition (Liska, Logan, & Bellair, 1998). This finding is important because it proves a point that impoverish people are not likely to commit a crime than a well-doer. This sheds some light on the issue that even though a suburban area that is expected to have more resources and advantages over a impoverish area. Crime and/or acts of violent can take place in …show more content…
Also, because of this it holds an explanation to why crime occurs. There has been research on correlation between poverty and crime. One article in particular, examines the relationship between crime rates and poverty clusters that anticipated results to support the idea spatial dimension of poverty contributes to crime (Stretesky, Schuck, & Hogan, 2004). Researchers use the Uniform Crime reports to measure the crimes that are common in that area. In addition, they used the census of population to evaluate poverty cluster. In conclusion, their results clearly provide little support that poverty cluster are directly and completely related to violent crime rates across cities. However, their data supports the idea that poverty and violent crime are strongly related when high poverty areas are more highly clustered (Stretesky, Schuck, & Hogan, 2004). This research reinforces the idea that it is ultimately the individual who makes the decision to part take in crime. This study isolated the individual and focused on the environment. As a result, the surrounds not having enough space contributed to the increase of the crime rate. Overall, one can conclude that the aspect of people’s atmosphere does affect crime. On the other hand, members in the community still have a choice to take part in
Individual’s social class creates an image for people in society to believe that it is one out of many factors that contribute to crime. However, a study suggests that the relationship between social class and crime are weakly related …show more content…
As expected, someone at a prestige level would assume impoverish people would commit more crimes because of limited resources that influence their choice in wrongdoing. In addition, it is known for African-Americans to live in poverty with high crime rates but imagine a change in location but the same crime rates. This is a study that explores the effects of racial composition on crime rates, but give equal weight to the opposite violent crime rate itself could cause a change in racial composition (Liska, Logan, & Bellair, 1998). The research takes place in the suburbs from a national sample of 1,604 suburban cities with more than 2,500 citizens and used the Uniform Crime Reports for crime data. In conclusion, the relationship between violent crime and the racial composition of suburban communities reflects both the effect of racial composition on violent crime and the effect of violent crime (specifically robbery) on racial composition (Liska, Logan, & Bellair, 1998). This finding is important because it proves a point that impoverish people are not likely to commit a crime than a well-doer. This sheds some light on the issue that even though a suburban area that is expected to have more resources and advantages over a impoverish area. Crime and/or acts of violent can take place in …show more content…
Also, because of this it holds an explanation to why crime occurs. There has been research on correlation between poverty and crime. One article in particular, examines the relationship between crime rates and poverty clusters that anticipated results to support the idea spatial dimension of poverty contributes to crime (Stretesky, Schuck, & Hogan, 2004). Researchers use the Uniform Crime reports to measure the crimes that are common in that area. In addition, they used the census of population to evaluate poverty cluster. In conclusion, their results clearly provide little support that poverty cluster are directly and completely related to violent crime rates across cities. However, their data supports the idea that poverty and violent crime are strongly related when high poverty areas are more highly clustered (Stretesky, Schuck, & Hogan, 2004). This research reinforces the idea that it is ultimately the individual who makes the decision to part take in crime. This study isolated the individual and focused on the environment. As a result, the surrounds not having enough space contributed to the increase of the crime rate. Overall, one can conclude that the aspect of people’s atmosphere does affect crime. On the other hand, members in the community still have a choice to take part in