...highlights the high crime counties in the state. In order to complete this task, we were given the county name, county population, county area, the county code, and the number of occurrences of seven different categories of crime: (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) robbery, (d) aggravated assault, (e) burglary, (f) larceny, and (g) motor vehicle theft for each of the counties (As shown in Table 1). The following analysis implies a simple quantitative summary of a data set that has been collected. It will help understand the data set and explain the required details that helped put this data in perspective. Metric Description Firstly, Stat Monkees decided on a specific metric based on population density and total crime for splitting the counties into high and low crime counties. Population density was determined by dividing the population of each county by its area (sq. mi). Secondly, we added all the crimes of each county to arrive at the total crime for each county. For example, in York county the total crime of 144 reported in 2012 was derived by adding up murder (0), rape (1), robbery (5), aggravated assault (11), burglary (25), Larceny (94), motor vehicle theft (8). Finally, in order to determine the crime rates for each county in the state of Texkansahomatucky, we basically use the formula: (Total crime for each county)/(Population density for each county) For example, Lake county crime rate of 11.96 reported in 2012 was derived by dividing Lake county total crime (54160)/population...
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...Poverty and Crime CJA/344 October 29, 2015 Chris Manning Poverty and Crime Poverty refers to scarcity or state of lack money or lack possessions of a certain amount. Poverty may be either absolute or relative depending on magnitude and severity. In the case of absolute poverty, one cannot meet basic needs like shelter and food. The poverty results from broad issues such as inequality, unemployment and high population density (Raphael, & Tolman, R.1997). Crime, refers to act that is harmful to individual and community or state at large by the individual. Crime exists almost everywhere in the United States, in both rural and urban areas. For this topic, the research proved that poverty indicates a high likelihood of crime activities. Other factors such as unemployment, high population density and low-income family background play an important role in the increasing crime in our society today (Raphael, & Tolman, 1997). In the United States, poverty is a big issue amid areas that have high poverty levels. Factors that determine the poverty levels such minority population, high population density and unemployment increase the case of crime in the areas (Drake, & Pandey, 1996). The crime can be explained using some theories such high stress among the poor, which increase the likelihood of committing robbery, rape among other violent acts. The inferior education acquired by poor youth reduces chances of getting a good job, role model and increasing the possibility of spending...
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...Global Crime “A more complicated problem in comparing crime rates across nations is that of nonstandardized definitions of crime.” (Dammer, 2010) Each country rates their crime a certain and different way. According to the Table 2.3 on page 27 in the book the three highest homicide rate countries are Venezuela, El Salvador and Jamaica. The three lowest homicide rates are Hong Kung, Japan, and Singapore. Venezuela, El Salvador, and Jamaica have similar economic, social, educational and government that contribute to their high homicide rates. All three countries have high poverty, organized crime, slow economic growth, overcrowded prisons, and poor police. People in these countries usually do not continue their education due to the lack of money. Due to prisons being overcrowded people usually get away with their crimes. “Critics often say the reasons are plain to see but are not tackled. They include poorly paid and often corrupt police (responsible, even by official admission, for 1 in 5 crimes);a corrupt inefficient and politicized judiciary; possibly the most violent and overcrowded prison system in Latin America; and over worked prosecutors, who are often enlisted to persecute the political opposition instead of putting criminals behind bars. (P.G., 2010) Organized crime such as illegal weapons, class warfare, and drugs also contribute to citizens feeling unsafe. “Most Central American Governments are ill-equipped to tackle the mayhem. (Organised crime in Central...
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... AUGUST 16TH 2015. Even though we search how to solve the problems of illiteracy, illiteracy is a serious problem in pour society today because illiteracy causes high rate of unemployment, high crime rates, health issues and loss of talents inbuilt in our youths leading to low self-esteem. Illiteracy is a pressing concern especially for poor countries, it affects all other aspects of life and personal behavior of the uneducated one. There are several causes which may lead someone to be uneducated or to escape from school. In this essay I will discuss some causes of illiteracy and its effects on our society, and how we can treat it. Illiteracy is a global problem we are facing in our society today of which it greatly affects all our day to day life activities. I will first start with the problem unemployment in which one of the reasons for this is the high illiteracy level in our society. Unemployment is a situation where youths and the general population are unable to get jobs to meet up with their day to day responsibilities and bills. When people are not able to read and write they are greatly handicapped educational wise there by causing them not fit for the job market. Illiteracy still on the same side of the coin cause low self-esteem among youths who are less educated causing them fill inferior to their fellow educated youths. But we us tackling the outside solutions of illiteracy in relation to unemployment without...
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...For this project, you will need to observe the amount and type of crime being reported, as well as the characteristics of those individuals involved in the crime. In your write up, you should identify the dates and networks of your media sources. First, you should report: 1. The percentage of stories dealing with crime 2. The proportion of different categories of crime presented (violent vs. non-violent, street crime vs. white-collar, et cetera) 3. Pertinent demographic characteristics of the offender(s) and victim(s) Next, you should assess and critically reflect on the representation of crime in the media: 1. Do the media present an accurate picture of the overall crime rate? 2. Do the media tend to focus on a particular type of crime? If so, why might this be the case? 3. Do the media present an accurate picture of offenders? Of victims? What notable differences exist between media representations and official data for these two groups? 4. What are the possible implications of media (mis)representations of crime in society? You may choose to review official statistics on crime here: http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook. This is a resource to be used in writing your response, at your discretion. It is not required. GRADING Your project will be graded on the strength and clarity with which you communicate your analysis of the data. This will be broken down the following ways: · Use of course material · Organization of ideas · Formatting of paper · Quality of conceptual...
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...delinquency. Poverty and crime has been major issues in our society over the past few years. Do you think these two issues correlate to each other? I think society today does see poverty as a factor in crime rates and the correlation between each is valid. The cause and effect theory is: because of poverty, crime rates are high. If this is true, one way to solve crime is to solve poverty. The sociological perspective on this topic involves looking at the bigger picture. The structural functionalism for poverty is lack of education, unemployed, preferring to “live for the moment”, and resigning themselves to a culture of poverty (which nothing can be done to change their economic outcomes). We can solve poverty by; (1) understanding the factors that play into poverty and crimes, (2) advancing our education levels, and (3) lowering our unemployment rates. With these three solutions we can diminish poverty and receive less delinquency. (Macionis, 2010, p.59). According to census, in 2014 there were more than 45 million Americans living below the poverty line. A family of three making less than $19,790 year is considered living below the poverty level. $19,790 averages out to about 10$ per hour. (Gongoff, 2014, para. 2). A single mom working at minimum wages with two kids lives in poverty. A third of all poverty households are single mothers. Single mothers are more likely to become a victim of a crime. I found an article online The Property-Crime Connection; in this...
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...be to raise the hourly minimum wage to a higher rate instead of $7.25. Increasing the minimum wage would reduce the amount of poverty that the United States has. Surprisingly, the high school dropout rate has a high correlation with the low national minimum wage. Doing this would also decrease the amount of crimes we have in the US every year. Raising the minimum wage would benefit the United States in many ways. Poverty is a real problem in the US and has been for some time, but by paying our low income families more money per hour this problem could be resolved. “The annual earnings for a full time minimum wage worker is $15,080 at the current federal minimum wage of $7.25.” (what are the annual earnings) $15,080 is hardly enough to support a family and provide nutritional and well balanced meals. In agreement with Mike Konczal, Author of Economist agree: Raising the Minimum Wage Reduces Poverty says, “raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, as many Democrats are proposing in 2014 would reduce the number of people living in poverty by 4.6 million...
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...(433.0) | 125 (406.8) | 90 (279.5) | 127 (393.0) | 108 (333.0) | 121 (367.8) | 130 (384.2) | 94 (275.9) | 110 (318.2) | Thefts (per 100,000) | 681 (2,489.1) | 683 (2,371.0) | 741 (2,585.6) | 744 (2,577.3) | 742 (2,414.5) | 792 (2,459.8) | 855 (2,645.9) | 855 (2,636.4) | 850 (2,583.9) | 908 (2,683.8) | 985 (2,891.2) | 966 (2,794.2) | Auto thefts (per 100,000) | 46 (168.1) | 28 (97.2) | 43 (150.0) | 45 (155.9) | 51 (166.0) | 38 (118.0) | 36 (111.4) | 36 (111.0) | 49 (149.0) | 34 (100.5) | 43 (126.2) | 48 (138.8) | Arson (per 100,000) | 11 (40.2) | 9 (31.2) | 6 (20.9) | 11 (38.1) | N/A | 5 (15.5) | 2 (6.2) | 6 (18.5) | 5 (15.2) | 2 (5.9) | 1 (2.9) | 3 (8.7) | City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 311.4) | 154.7 |...
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...Analysis and the common perception of property crime This project will determine whether or not a relationship exists between various variables as they pertain to, or not, property crime. Property crime affects everyone in the population, directly or indirectly. The ability to understand and predict indicators (independent variables) of property crime can help focus the finite assets of society and the government to reduce, or in a utopic vision eliminate, property crime. To help determine the applicability of the variables, a multiple regression was performed on the property crime dataset (appendix A) to analyze the dependent or independent relations to the crime variable. APPX A shows the results of the regression analysis between each of the 8 variables when associated with crime. By using Minitab 16 for this procedure, tests were run to measure the relative p-values among the independent variables. Each independent variable in the regression models had tolerance values close to 0.1 and variance inflation factors (VIF) well below the target value (below 0.05, Allen tutorials cconline.net/browna/tutorials_mt16.htm). In fact, all were below 0.05 indicating the predictive value of the regression models and the rejection of Ho (null hypothesis) Ho: none of the variables predict Property Crime Ha: at least one of the independent variables is helpful to predict property crime The dependent variable is CRIMES: Property crime rate per 100k inhabitants. The independent variables...
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...world boasts the highest “rehabilitation” rate in the world. The staggering part remains that not only do we have the highest prison population but our incarceration rate continues to grow as our creativity or desire to solve this problem continues to stagnate. One of the major issues when researching incarceration rates is the obvious elevated rate of young African-American males that are sentenced. While the percentage of African-American incarcerated males is extremely high the length of their sentences are shockingly elevated compared to the majority of population in the United States. “One in every nine African-American males aged 25-29 were in prison or jail in 2009, compared to one in twenty-seven Latino males and one in sixty white males in the same age group, according to the Sentencing Project”. ("State of Young America," 2009, para. 11) The question currently being dealt with in the United States is how do we accommodate all of these prisoners? Our countries answer has been quite simple, to build more prisons or as some would sugarcoat it, “rehabilitation facilities”. The correct question we should be asking is, why we have so many African-American prisoners, and why do they keep returning to prisons soon after release. These are supposed to be considered rehabilitation facilities? Exactly what is the goal for preparing these prisoners upon release? In looking for trends one would look no further than the high rate of incarceration of African-American males...
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... Crime rates across Texansahomatucky June 20, 2011 In order to help the Justice Department in the state of Texkansahomatucky a map that highlights the high crime counties in the state has been created. In order to determine which counties are high crime and which are low crime one has to first do some statistical calculations. Using the data provided by the state, one must first calculate the total crimes for each county. This can be done by adding all of the violent crime categories together for each county individually. Equation: (Murder + Rape + Robbery + Aggressive Assault = total violent crime). Then one must add the property crime categories together for each county individually. Equation: (Burglary + Larceny + MV Theft = total property crime) Once the total violent crime and total property crime numbers are obtained then they can be added together to obtain the total crime per county. Equation example: (Kent County total violent crime + Kent County total property crime = Kent County total crime). Once the total crime per county has been calculated the results can be used to aid in finding the crime rate. However, to find an accurate crime rate for each county the proper equation must be used. It wouldn’t be fair to determine the crime rate for each county based upon the total number of residents divided by the total crime of the county because each county varies in both size and population and these factors are believed to effect crime rates...
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...Anderson’s Code of the Street Theory states that certain neighborhoods feel isolated from the rest of society. These neighborhoods are usually poor, crime ridden, and have low levels of hope. The code is a set of standards and rules that these neighborhoods follow, the rules of the code are usually at odds with the general rules of society. The main purpose of the code is to increase the respect one receives and in theory lower their likelihood of victimization. Those that follow the code must be project an image of being physically tough and willing to commit acts of violence. If one feels disrespected he or she must be prepared and willing to retaliate for the slight that they received. If on does not do this then others may believe...
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...Is Crime Based on an Individual’s Socio-Economic Status? Kevin Dash Dr. Allan Conkey, Research Methods: CMRJ505 September 29, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Literature Review 6 Hypothesis/Problem Statement 8 Research Design/Methodology 8 Definitions 14 References 15 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to determine if someone’s social / economic status will increase the likely-hood they will commit crimes. The research conducted will not only focus on low-income individuals, but mid-range and higher-income individuals as well. The importance of this topic can better assist communities and their local government with the increase in prevention of crime in the long-run. Introduction: Over the years there have been numerous studies conducted showing that crimes are more prevalent in communities where the resident’s socio-economic status is lower than other parts of the same community. People who do not make much money or do not have high paying jobs, are more likely to find a source of income elsewhere, majority of the time that source is an illegal one. Thefts, robbery, armed robbery, dealing illegal drugs, are all common types of crimes that are committed in order for an individual to gain more wealth. With these types of crimes, the use of a weapon – most commonly a gun – is used to enact the most fear in the victim and make...
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...Theory Construction: Thesis: Providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor is a necessary right. Providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor benefits the community by keeping crime rates down and creating community solidarity. It is necessary for attorneys to provide free (or low cost) legal services for the poor. Many people cannot afford to pay for legal services, especially in non-criminal cases. Currently, the state provides free legal services for criminal cases but not civil. Groups like the ACLU sometimes provide free legal services for civil law cases. Yet the ACLU cannot help every person. The ACLU specalizes in civil rights cases and it is inclined to represent groups rather than individuls. Other groups like Legal...
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...Darwin is very low. From air pollution to garbage pollution it's overall very low. Because of this occupants of Darwin are allowed to drink from rivers and streams because the pollution of water is 21.67 which is low and therefore gives a small chance of an occupant getting sick or dieing from the water. Air pollution is also very low (10.53) which is a good sign so that it doesn't affect rain water pollution which most likely lands in streams or rivers. "They have a good policy document, they have an environmental management strategy, they have a lot of regulation from the national and Territory government," a scientist said (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-07/residents-allege-darwin-airport-breaching-pollution-laws/6602216)....
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