The crime rate has been increasing more and more every year (Sipes, 2016). It is a rising issue that many cities have to look into solving. There are a couple different ways in which they have gone about solving it. It seems that some of them may be grasping a little with their strategy, but at least they are trying to reduce crimes in the are. People need to come together to solve this very big issue that plagues every country in the world.
Many cities have come up with community crime prevention strategies. There of course are many of these strategies that do not work at all. There are two basic categories that prevention programs fall into; environmental, and social (“Crime Prevention Approach…” 2015). The type of strategies that seem to work the best are the ones that look into early intervention such as after school programs or community young organizations. They seem to be the most effective. Even though a lot of communities look into community development they are not effective in getting rid of crime in communities (“Crime Prevention approach…” 2015). They think that if they make the neighborhood a nice place people might take pride in it, but this does not work that well.
Another strategy that people think could help with crime prevention is giving out surveys to look into early signs and risks of becoming an offending criminal. This research would help give an idea of the reason people get involved in crime (Farrington). Once we have an idea of the signs that people might commit a crime it will help so that we can use early intervention strategies. The more that people know the earlier they can get involved to treat the problem at the source.
Some cities think that the proximal variable for committing a crime is the persons’ lack of income. This being part of the sociological reason for people to commit their crime (Schneider, Gruman & Coutts, 2012) They have come up with the solution of paying their criminals to not commit crimes. There are multiple cities that have come up with this solution. Richmond, California has started to pay their criminals twelve thousand dollars a year not to kill other people (Hawkins, 2016). However, they are not the only city doing there. District of Columbia is the next city thinking about this solution as well. They just recently passed a plan similar to the one that Richmond had passed. D.C. has not yet decided on the details yet, but they are also thinking about paying them as much as a thousand dollar a month as well. They are only thinking about paying the most violent criminals who have decide to become active in the community. There is not a lot of hope in this strategy from the public (Davis, 2016).
There are of course many ways used to get rid of crime and nobody knows which way will work the best. The most important thing that people need to remember is that we cannot give up. People need to band together and help everyone come together to get rid of the crime in our neighborhoods. It is not problem that we can ignore so we need to come up with ideas that maybe involve not paying criminals who have committed crimes. Once we find an effective way we need to implement it and realize that no method with fully get rid of crime. It is just a part of nature.
References
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CrimeSolutions.gov. (n.d.). Retrieved October 16, 2016, from https://www.crimesolutions.gov/TopicDetails.aspx?ID=10
Davis, A. C. (2016, March 28). D.C. plans to pay its most violent residents not to kill. Here’s why it could fail. Retrieved October 17, 2016, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-plans-to-pay-its-most-violent-residents-not-to-kill-here-why-it-could-fail/2016/03/28/92eb552a-f2c3-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html
Farrington, D. P., & Welsh, B. C. (n.d.). Family-based crime prevention. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention,22-55. doi:10.4324/9780203166697_chapter_3
Hawkins, A. (2016). CA City Pays Would-Be Killers $12,000 a Year Not to Murder. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/04/04/ca-city-pays-killers-12000-year-not-murder-guns/
Schneider, F.W., Gruman, J.A., & Coutts, L.M. (2012) Applied social psychology: Understanding and addressing social and practical problems. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
It is so sad that the crime rate has risen; what is the cause? I definitely agree, lack of income plays a huge role in why individuals participate in crimes. A part of me feels that some people would rather be in jail than live on the streets in America. It is unfortunate thing to think that this may be true. The thing to think about is, when we look at the statistics of crime rates, where is it occurring the most? By this I mean which city in which state? What interesting is, with the debate going on, our two remaining candidates haven’t really discussed crimes with America. There are so many issues to address but shouldn’t crimes be just as important?