Crime prevention is a topic area that has received nearly as much research devotion as crime causation. What can be done to prevent a particular criminal act from occurring? What methods can be undertaken to harden a person, location, or item from becoming a victim of crime? What are the socio-economic drivers of criminal behavior? These questions and a myriad of similar thoughts, questions, and ideas fill the minds of the public and policy makers alike. A more simplistic approach is often needed
In the United States, from 1975 to 1980, the crime rate had risen over eighty percent. Many criminologists believed that the increase in the crime rate was due to numerous variables, like an unstable economy, issues pertaining to civil rights, and an insufficient amount of police officers. However, many experts over looked the impact that abortion had and still has on crime today. Before 1973 having an abortion was illegal, except when it was used to save the life of the mother. Abortion during that
Poverty in the New York City : An Analysis Of Changing Geographic Patterns Of Poverty shows a statistic that in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the concentrated poverty rate grew from 38.0 percent in 2000 to 43.2 percent 2006 to 2010. In the South Bronx neighborhoods of Mott Haven and Hunts points , over two thirds (67.3 percent) in addition almost three-quarters(72.5 percent) of all children live in extreme poverty area. Following this further it generates crime rates to increase , poor housing ,
Poverty in the New York City : An Analysis Of Changing Geographic Patterns Of Poverty shows a statistic that in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the concentrated poverty rate grew from 38.0 percent in 2000 to 43.2 percent 2006 to 2010. In the South Bronx neighborhoods of Mott Haven and Hunts points , over two thirds (67.3 percent) in addition, almost three-quarters(72.5 percent) of all children live in extreme poverty area. Following this further it generates crime rates to increase , poor housing