Criminology
In this paper I plan on examining three articles and some criminological theories that may help explain the articles. My articles' main points are; a decrease in crime nation wide and some of the explanations for that, the increase in white-collar crimes in the past decade, and some of the flaws in a report that says bay-area crime is increasing. In my conclusion I will explain some of the similarities between the three articles. My first article comes from The Times Union in Albany New York. The Main idea of this article is that crime has been decreasing over the past decade. The author attributes this to three things; a booming economy, improvements in the poor neighborhoods, and tougher penalties for violent crimes. The statistics were gathered from the National Crime Victimization Survey and "does not include murder." (The Times Union, September 9 2002) Christopher Newton quotes Ralph Myers a criminologist at Stanford when he says, "When people have jobs and poor neighborhoods improve, crime goes down" (The Times Union, September 9 2002) The first theory I would like to relate to this is Robert Merton's theory of social structure and Anomie. Merton says that "all societies have a cultural system that denote
(Brown, page 325) There are nine principles of Differential Association. Second, it could be that people are reporting more crime to the police. This article talks about Uniform Crime Rates and the fact that they are saying crime increased between 2001 and 2002. Innovation is where people want the goals of society but achieve them through unacceptable means. (Brown, page 310) This idea applies in couple of ways. For example, they could have thought to themselves " This company doesn't pay me enough" or " This company doesn't really need all this money, so it won't really matter if I take some of it". First, it doesn't account for visitors to that particular place. some departments some departments did not provide raw information for certain crime categories and others collected statistics incorrectly. the FBI releases simply the number of crimes committed in a given city without correlating that number with an increase in population. Even though these people have jobs and thus the means to achieve wealth, it could be that they want more wealth and don't have the legal means to achieve that. This would cause the numbers to increase even though the crime rate may actually be the same or even lower. Some of its strengths are that it is cheap and easily accessible. There are several different ways all have some strengths and some weaknesses. He says that criminal behavior is learned through the interaction with other people (mainly in intimate groups), learning consists of techniques for committing the crime and specific motives and rationalization, "The specific direction of motives and drives is learned from definitions of the legal code as favorable or unfavorable" (Brown, page 326), people become delinquent when there beliefs of breaking the law outweigh their belief of following it, "Differential Associations may vary in frequency, duration, priority, and intensity. Another aspect of this that needs to be examined is the idea that criminal behavior is learned.
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