Theories Of Criminology

The best way to prevent crimes in the community is to have all agencies affected by crime, working together to minimizing the influence of it. This theory is called ONE SYSTEM. Many of the theories mentioned in chapter one of our criminology theory book have one common goal, to understand. Theories such as macro level theories try to explain the criminal mind from a grander perspective. Where micro theories attempt to bring a improve perception on an individual level. Have we mastered the evolution needed to bring change to the social or individual level? We will review some of the different criminology theories we reviewed in class, the one system theory that I created both pros and cons, that an adequate comparison can be produced of the …show more content…
The positive side of this is any decrease in crime rate is always a plus. Weeding out one problem at a time is always favorable. Dealing with crime on a macro level is useful and a quicker approach especially when government funding is involved. Yet micro level is far more …show more content…
As a child I witness many diapproving police interaction and brutality within my own community. There have been negative interactions with government officials and the community recently in the news like the Michael Brown case. I grew up in an impoverished community which sometimes made the people the target by some government officials. I became one of the few anomalies in the community. My mother raised her children on welfare. My brother was into gangs. Drug dealers selling drugs were also a problem in the neighborhood. Yet all of the negative I experience in the community did not detour my expectations of graduating high school and even accomplishing it a year early. One system would partner up individual police officers from local units and youths that had been identified as being from broken homes, creating a mentor program. The officer would visit with the teen one day a week. Examples of interaction could be places like the park or a bowling alley. The local government official then would come in on another day and take the student to lunch or something of that nature and spend a few hours just talking with them. Many children in broken communities are being raised in a single parent home. This would allow the lack of a father or mother figure to be repaired. This would accomplish an old African proverb that says, “it takes a