Sample Essay about Crime
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Crime can be considered as an unlawful action taken by a person which is punishable byauthorities of a state or country. In present time, crime is not only harmful for an individual, butfor a society, community or for a whole country as well. Essay would cover different theories ofsocial learning, control, biological, genetics and evolution that might help in understanding thecriminal behaviour (Downes, Rock and McLaughlin, 2016). Based on the analysis, it can be saidthat sex offences and violent crimes that are recorded in different police stations of Wales andEngland crime rate has increased if it is analysed over the past year. Office for National Statisticsmentioned that, around 5.3 million crimes were basically recorded in a period of 1 year, thisshows a hike of 14%. Based on the surveys that has been done by number of news channels,citizens of United Kingdom has stated that crimes continues to fall (Crime statistics: Violentcrime and sex offences rising, police figures suggest, 2018). (Source: Violent crime: Is it getting worse?, 2019)Based on the above mentioned graph, it can be said that, ongoing work which was doneby police forces in last three years has been much effective and efficient in nature and they haveimproved security for citizens of United Kingdom, but based on graph, crime rate or total1Illustration 1: Violent crime: Is it getting worse?, 2019
violence is rapidly increasing which impacted negatively on thinking of public and raised fearamong them.Based on the rational choice theory, it can be said that people basically make actionsbased on their own interests which can lead them towards risks. But, many contradictorystatements has been given on this theory where economists said that they cannot believe in whatrational choice theory has shown and stated that individuals do not always takes decisions basedon rational utility-maximizing situations (White, Haines and Asquith, 2017). Reason behind thissituation is that, individuals frequently makes irrational determination and then finds it out thatwhy they have done it. In crime world, there are many cases which came in front where acriminal has accepted his/her crime that was attempted by him/her. Along with this, there aremany challenges that are being faced by individuals at the time of living a good life and may leada person to become a criminal and these are: poverty, ageism, mistreatment and abuse, elderabuse and more (Eck and Weisburd, 2015). It has been found that, people at the time of enteringold age, they face challenges like Ageism, that consist with a range of things like discriminationand stereotyping against them, that basically develops a mentality or misconceptions of abilitiesthat they are having. On the other hand, elderly poverty has been improved but still, there are anumber of issues that came in front of them like their own children do not support them,recession and more. Physically frail can also be taken as another problem which basicallyincreases risks of elder abuse among people that are coming under elderly age i.e. 60 and above(Policastro, 2015).Social disorganisation theory, states that the main reason behind rise in criminalbehaviour among individuals are both physical and social environments. Residential locationslike urban area has a potential of high earnings, and every single person in this era loves to havea lavish life and which is not possible. That is why people that are living in urban areas butcoming under below poverty line mainly attempts criminal acts in order to fulfil their needs(Wortley and Townsley, 2016). On this theory as well, many contradictory statements took placeand psychologists said that it is the depression, mental disorder and needs of a person thatbasically pushes an individual towards attempting a crime. If it is talked about changes thatindividuals faces during adolescence than, social and emotional are the two major factors whichimpacts mainly upon their behaviour and may lead to attempt a crime (Farrington, 2017). In thepresent scenario, an individual who is in the phase of adolescence looks for number of things like2
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