AViolent crime is reported when someone hurts someone physically or threatens to hurt someone. Violent crime may be committed with a weapon or without a weapon. It includes murder, rape, assault, sexual assault and robbery. According to various research studies, it is reported that the violent crime rates have dropped between the years 1990-2001. According to Cross-National Studies, the violent crime rate has fallen significantly in the United States, moderately in Great Britain and slowly in Australia (Farrell, 2013). A similar pattern of decrease in violent crime is observed among the three nations during the same period. Research studies suggest that the drop in crime rates is attributable to similar factors.
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The amount spent in managing the prisoners would not have reduced the crime but the same money, when used for preventing crime, could have certainly reduced crime (Kubrin, 2009). The social disorganization theory claims that crime can be referred to as a function of neighborhood dynamics and not the function of individual. The theory argues that crime rates are high in socially disorganized areas than socially organized areas. The theory suggests that criminals tend to live in places which they find comfortable and hence, the greater numbers of incarcerated prisoners are expected to accumulate in neighboring areas, thereby making them disorganized and increasing the crime rates (Kubrin, …show more content…
The murders and homicides have decreased but the instances of sexual assaults and rapes are still prevalent in the society and many times they are not reported. Cyber crimes have also increased. Hence, reduction in crime is achieved but at the cost of social disorganization (Ruggles, 2011). The released prisoners don’t find a place in socially organized neighborhoods and forced to live in disorganized ones thereby increasing the disorganized groups. An increase in the socially disorganized groups gives rise to crime as crime is a product of neighborhood
According to a cross-national …show more content…
The amount spent in managing the prisoners would not have reduced the crime but the same money, when used for preventing crime, could have certainly reduced crime (Kubrin, 2009). The social disorganization theory claims that crime can be referred to as a function of neighborhood dynamics and not the function of individual. The theory argues that crime rates are high in socially disorganized areas than socially organized areas. The theory suggests that criminals tend to live in places which they find comfortable and hence, the greater numbers of incarcerated prisoners are expected to accumulate in neighboring areas, thereby making them disorganized and increasing the crime rates (Kubrin, …show more content…
The murders and homicides have decreased but the instances of sexual assaults and rapes are still prevalent in the society and many times they are not reported. Cyber crimes have also increased. Hence, reduction in crime is achieved but at the cost of social disorganization (Ruggles, 2011). The released prisoners don’t find a place in socially organized neighborhoods and forced to live in disorganized ones thereby increasing the disorganized groups. An increase in the socially disorganized groups gives rise to crime as crime is a product of neighborhood