Reducing Teenage Crimes and Deaths in London

Ethics and research
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CONTENTS
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
TOPIC: How to reduce teenage crimes and deaths on the streets of London.................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION OF BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE OF RESEARCH 875..........................4
Background of study....................................................................................................................4
Rationale of research...................................................................................................................5
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES.............................................................................................................5
Aim:.............................................................................................................................................6
Research Objective......................................................................................................................6
Research Questions......................................................................................................................6
OUTLINES OF METHODOLOGY................................................................................................6
DISCUSSION ON ETHICAL CONSIDERATION.......................................................................8
DISCUSSION ON BIASES AND LIMITATIONS........................................................................9
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF GANTT CHART....................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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TOPIC: How to reduce teenage crimes and deaths on the streets of London
INTRODUCTION
The teenage is consider to be a age where children are getting more influence by the
people or their act which become a factor that spoil up their whole life. In London the cases of
teenage crime is increasing day by day due to misleading company that teenagers mainly get in
this age. This is considered to be one of the wider societal problem which is affecting the future
of many. These type of issues are mainly found among those young people who remains in a
disadvantaged areas, who are facing several social issues such as teenagers who are suffering as
a result of cut from their schools and youth services, that are being criticised, faced certain issues
that created anxiety, fear and anger among them regarding a particular thing, understandably
they feel disillusioned and though they have been adondend (LaFree, 2018). When there is a
disillusion occurs among the teenage, the youth crime mainly get space in their life which in turn
gradually increases and take up it into a big picture. Other than this there are certain factors that
are present within the environment or surrounding in which a child grow up also have a huge
impact over the path that teenager adopt. These mainly includes economic situation or poverty in
which a teenager is living, society to which they belong, their beliefs, attitudes, reactions, events
or behaviour that the people in society mainly follows. Other than this the family structure or the
upbringing they have affect a lot to their life. These all are the factors that provoke a teenager in
getting indulge with such practices or crimes (Weisburd and McEwen, 2015). It also increases
the risk of behavioural and mental health issues, victimisation and future violence, obesity, high
risk sexual behaviour, academic difficulties, suicide, murder, school dropout, depression etc.
There are number of criminal practices to which the teenagers mainly get involved which
in turn then further brings up several consequences. This is so because the crime affects the
people at all the level which also creates fear and anxiety which in turn further result into the
overreaction or victimization. This result into involvement of youth into bad, unethical a=or
illegal practices such as bullying. Fighting, gang related violence and threat with weapon. When
a teenager gets involved in such kind of criminal practices then it brings up a long-term impact
over the well being and health of the youngsters (Goldson and Muncie, 2015). This is so because
such practices have a lasting effect over the mental, physical and social health of the young
people which in turn may also leads to death of young people and also results into more than of
400000 nonfatal injuries every year among the teenagers. These types of youth violence mainly
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go beyond the physical consequences. Therefore, the teenage crime is require to stop and to
determine the ways through which teenage crime of increasing death rate with these issues
current investigation is performed which in turn support in uncovering several factors that are
required to be consider in order to avoid such practices from society and provide teenager a
direction for better future.
DISCUSSION OF BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE OF RESEARCH 875
Background of study
In the recent past years a significant increase has been identified and analysed in teenage
crimes on the streets of London. The teenagers nowadays aggressively engaging in criminal
activities and sever crimes in London. Measures includes college students awesome graduates
who are still in there developing age sometimes students from high schools also involved in such
criminal activities. In the recent past years London have seen a significant rise in their cases of
knife crimes. Individuals for mostly in range in knife crimes are teenagers according to the
researchers and the data is collected (Marsh and Melville, 2019). Most of the times these
criminal activities are undertaken by students and teenagers with the motive of stealing money
and other valuable items of people. The report from different governmental and non
governmental institute has sited that drug dealing and social media is the key drivers and factors
of these criminal activities conducted teenagers and students as young as of 13 years old. There
are several factors and crucial elements which gives rise to such criminal activities in minds of
teenagers and young students. The most increasing and commonly known reason behind these
criminal activities is related with drugs either for dealing it or for consuming it (Cornell, 2017).
Teenagers are negatively moving towards wrong directions and indulging in such criminal
activities the steal money, deals drugs and sometimes commit murders for accomplishing their
goals and in the act of rage and nervousness. from different 8 hours charts and statistics it has
been analysed that the knife offences are aggressively increasing since 2011 till 2019. In 2011
there were around 25,000 to 30,000 of knife offences in front since then the number is rising and
rising and reached to approximately 45,000 cases in 2019. The Half of the knife crimes in
London are conducted by teenagers and young children. Officials and governmental institutes are
seeing and receiving a stock illustration of the scale of youth violence in London. Police statistics
show that 41% of offenders of knife crimes across the streets of London are close to the age
group of 15 to 19. It is very important for the country to reduce the teenage crimes and death on
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