Crime And Crime Essay

The reason for crimes in a society has been attributed to many factors, such as poverty, inequality, and unemployment. Albert K. Cohen, Lawrence E. Cohen, and Marcus Felson disagree with the statement that crime rate rely on poverty levels, unemployment levels, or even inequality, instead they take an approach that is more aligned with routine activity theory. According to routine activity theory, crime has to do with the situation, and opportunity for the criminal to commit the crime, and not with the fact that an individual is unemployed, is facing inequality in his or her society, or is living in poverty. In the article “The content of the Delinquency Subculture” by Albert K. Cohen, Cohen argues that crime rates are related to adolescent going against the norms that society sees as proper. In the article “Social …show more content…
et al. (1979) also argues that crime has more to do with the lack of guardian, suitable targets, and the motivation of offender, than it does with poverty, inequality, or unemployment. Cohen L. et al. (1979), say’s that the dispersion of activities away from the home, and family leads to the crime rate to go up. Another argument made in the study is that technology has made it easier for criminals to commit crime, some of the technology that are mentioned as helping in the increase of crimes are highways, cars, and the advancement in the weight, and sizes of product (Cohen L. et al., 1979, Pg.591). Just as Albert K. Cohen (1962), Cohen L. et al. (1979) also takes a routine activity approach when looking at the reason for crimes. Both Cohen K. (1962), and Cohen L. et al. (1979) portrayed in their articles that the reason for crime has to do with the opportunity that the criminal has to commit the crime, and not to any reasons such as financial, or inequality. The main point that Cohen L. et al. was making is that crime rate is not connected to poverty or unemployment, but to the opportunity that the criminal has to commit the