Why Crime Is Increasing

This topic was chosen for the report after looking briefly into some research and finding out some information that would help answer the question such as police.uk crime maps. Completing questionnaires and interviews, the results we got were 50.7% said yes to thinking crime increases during the holiday season but then could not give a reason to why this was when asked if they had seen or heard of the crimes except burglary and theft and drunk and disorderly, where just over 50% said yes. This means the general public think it does increase but cannot state what they think it is. This may mean they aren 't thinking about it to hard as they only have a few minutes as they had been stopped during their day; Or just believe the more people …show more content…
Before starting my research I looked into the crime survey results from the government website to see if crime levels increased during the holiday season months. In February 2015 there were 21 crimes reported in Exmouth area, but in July there was 36 this pattern happens in years before backing up my first opinion and helping to create a question that will back up my thoughts. Starting with the questionnaires people said they do think crime increases and from the results above 50.7% said yes on the other hand as the questions became more detailed asking have you ever seen or heard of certain crimes, most people were answering no. This can help with Pizam(1982) argument that only four out of nine increase. Also this shows that the public are influenced by the stories that are told around Exmouth that may not happen very often but can give the opinions to others that tourists are bad and will always commit crimes whilst visiting. Which is not the case because thousands of people will visit the seaside town but crime rates only increase slightly still being under 40 during holiday months in both 2014 and 2015. Discussing the theoretical links between visitors and crime, as Miller and Schwartz (1998) document. ‘We analyse many theories of how visitors affect crime, and how they vary across both the type of crime and type of visitor.’ This is what some of the questionnaire people may fall for as in different areas will attract different sorts of people, that may increase the crime rates. The limitations in this case study were the lack of questionnaires as it was only a small proportion and the time of year it was could of generated different opinions as it is only the beginning of the holiday season and more may happen the months ahead when more visitors go to Exmouth. The area we visited wasn 't very big, not making it a huge tourist destination and being rural place might not attract people from high populated