Chicago has not seen a spike in crime rates since the 1990s (Board 2017). In 2016 violent crimes started going back up. So, researchers at the University of Chicago Crime Lab have been trying to figure out why Chicago crime rate has been going up. They noticed that in December 2015 the crime rates for homicides were down but as soon as January hit the percentage went up 67 percent and kept going up. Researchers did realize that homicides did go up after several events. The events were the police shooting Laquan McDonald, the launch of a Justice Department investigation of the Chicago Police Department, a new policy on street stops resulting from a city agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union and a decline in the number of stops (Board
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It consists of three major elements which are a person motivated to commit the offense, a vulnerable victim who is available and insufficient protection to prevent the crime (Cohen and Felson 1979). Routine activities theory mainly focuses on the characteristics of crime and the criminal activities. So, you are not focusing on how the offender acts. When you use this theory, you are getting a better understanding. Routine activities theory contributes to the phenomenon going on in Chicago. Seems that 90% of crimes I have read can go along with this theory. It seems that people are only committing the crimes they do because they understand that when certain people are around they cannot get away with it. There are so many crimes I could choose to say would be an good example but I was able to choose one. A good example to show how it relates to this would be about what happened to Ben Wilson. Wilson, just an innocent 17-year-old high school student, was shot on November 20, 1984 (Bentle 2018). He was on lunch break with his girlfriend and friend walking around (Bentle 2018). When he bumped into William Moore. Moore decided he was going to shot Wilson twice. Wilson ended up dying the next …show more content…
She felt like if it was good enough for them and made them higher than that she needed to try it. Also, we do not know if she was pressured into learning about how to do meth. But it is important to know the stages of meth use that Natalie went through. Like she had stated everyone starts of snorting first. They don’t realize that once they get addicted and use to it that they need to do a different method. So, they decide to smoke it because now it’s giving them the high that they are looking for again. But once again they get used to the meth and it’s not getting them to the high they are looking for. So, they feel like it’s better to get it directly into their blood system. That’s when they decide their last option is to start ejecting. The whole processes show us how people get addicted to meth and what they go
It consists of three major elements which are a person motivated to commit the offense, a vulnerable victim who is available and insufficient protection to prevent the crime (Cohen and Felson 1979). Routine activities theory mainly focuses on the characteristics of crime and the criminal activities. So, you are not focusing on how the offender acts. When you use this theory, you are getting a better understanding. Routine activities theory contributes to the phenomenon going on in Chicago. Seems that 90% of crimes I have read can go along with this theory. It seems that people are only committing the crimes they do because they understand that when certain people are around they cannot get away with it. There are so many crimes I could choose to say would be an good example but I was able to choose one. A good example to show how it relates to this would be about what happened to Ben Wilson. Wilson, just an innocent 17-year-old high school student, was shot on November 20, 1984 (Bentle 2018). He was on lunch break with his girlfriend and friend walking around (Bentle 2018). When he bumped into William Moore. Moore decided he was going to shot Wilson twice. Wilson ended up dying the next …show more content…
She felt like if it was good enough for them and made them higher than that she needed to try it. Also, we do not know if she was pressured into learning about how to do meth. But it is important to know the stages of meth use that Natalie went through. Like she had stated everyone starts of snorting first. They don’t realize that once they get addicted and use to it that they need to do a different method. So, they decide to smoke it because now it’s giving them the high that they are looking for again. But once again they get used to the meth and it’s not getting them to the high they are looking for. So, they feel like it’s better to get it directly into their blood system. That’s when they decide their last option is to start ejecting. The whole processes show us how people get addicted to meth and what they go