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Crime and its effects on local society: A study on two articles

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Crime and its effects on local society..............................................................................................3
SECTION 1.....................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Background of the study..............................................................................................................3
Article one “ Crime and community”..........................................................................................4
Article two “Organized crimes in the United Kingdom ”...........................................................5
SECTION 2.....................................................................................................................................6
Summary of key findings.............................................................................................................6
Comparison between academic papers including purpose, methodology and results.................8
Purpose............................................................................................................................................8
Methodology....................................................................................................................................8
Results..............................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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Crime and its effects on local society
SECTION 1
INTRODUCTION
Crime has been determined as an unethical consideration in the society. It further denotes
the illegal commitment by an individual. The community is consists of large number of people
and the contribution of each person shapes the society. The rise in the crime affects the local
society in negative manner. As the crime involves those elements that are unacceptable for the
society as it reduces the effectiveness of the faith and belief in society. However, the local and
higher authority are consistently taking actions against crimes so, the number of crimes can be
reduced (Lindo and Padilla-Romo, 2018). There is need to shape the behaviour pattern of the
people who are following the path of crime. The crime often generates the fear in the public who
are living in the local society. Also, it affects the independence rate of the public.
The current study is based on the crime and its affects on local society. The report will
illustrate the background of the study and the two articles will be selected in order to analyse the
study. Also, the key findings of the selected articles will be shown that depicts the final result of
the study. Lastly, the comparison among the methodology of both the articles will be
highlighted.
MAIN BODY
Background of the study
Crime impacts the safety rate, social disorders, trust and faith in the community. Crime is
shaping the local society in that manner that only leads to the development of unethical
behaviour in the society. Thus, there is need to make a focus over this important topic as it
affects the large number of parameters in the community (Kubrin, Kim and Hipp, 2019). In local
society, the people who have a fear in relation of the crime does not involve in any physical
activities that performs at the local level. As a result, this impacts the physical health of the
people. Furthermore, it affects the mental health of the people as well. The fear in the mind of
the local people leads to generate the anxiety and depression in the people and this leads to
affects the mental health of an individual.
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The current study examines the major reason of the crime and its impacts over the local
community. The crime does not align with the people by their birth. There are certain factors that
force an individual to choose this path. The crime by an single individual affects the whole
society. Therefore, it important to know what are the major aspect of crimes that impacts the
local society. In order to protect the society it is important to know the impacts and solution of
the crimes (Koop-Monteiro, 2021). The current study is revolves around this only. Currently, it
has been considered as the important issues as it is affecting the local community. As a result,
this leads to shape the behaviour pattern in the society.
Article one “ Crime and community”
Wilkinson, K.P., 2019. Crime and community. In American rural communities (pp.
151-168). Routledge.
The chosen article has been first published by the Kenneth. P. Wilkinson. This article has
revealed that, crime and community both are inter-linked with each other. The environment of
community impacts the crime and same as, the crime impacts the environment of the community.
Crimes related to abuse, drugs, theft, murder and so on shapes the community in a high negative
manner. The crimes related to the drug abuse are impacting the lives of the youngsters in the
local community (Wilkinson, 2019). The article further shows that, the youngsters further
believes in the path of crime as there is no guidance to them. There is threat to those youngsters
as well who are free from such wrongdoings. As it has become the trend in the society and each
individual is attracting towards it.
The women often feels unsafe in the community due to the increasing rate of crimes. As
the cases related to the sexual harassment has been increasing on a high note. At workplace often
women has faced the crime. This leads to create the sense of fear in them. Furthermore, women
only feels safe at home and do not go for job only due to the increasing rate of crimes (Roth,
2018). The fear related to the theft and murder in the local society hindering the growth of the
local people. As there are many physical camp has been organised at local level but due to the
threat of crime many local people doest not attend such activities.
The mental health of the people in the community is highly affected by the crimes. For
example: An individual has experience the crime in drastic manner. Many times such events
change into the trauma. These traumas affect the mental health of an individual for the rest of
life. This is how crime affects the people in the local society and local society as well. The article
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