“When some Hong Kong police officers rang the bell of an apartment in Kowloon, the door burst open and gangsters opened fire with AK-47s and other automatic weapons…” causing one to remark, “‘a shoot-up of that kind can happen in any big city,’” (Murphy 1). Humans have committed crimes since the beginning of civilization,and as cities have grown, so has the crime. Problematically though, cities in poor developing nations, will have a population and a crime rate that is going to grow exponentially. According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, “registered rape cases in India had increased by almost 900 per cent over the past 40 years… while murder cases had gone up by...250 percent over 60 years” (Burke). Even though their population and crime has snowballed, little has been done to improve developing cities educational systems or protection services. At the current rate cities are projected to urbanize, rapidly developing countries’ only solution is to implement stronger protection services and improve public education systems in order to effectively slow crime and create safer cities.
Urbanization has in the past grown very steadily, but is projected to begin to grow rampantly, which will cause extreme pressure on all city systems. Urbanization is when people move from rural areas to to concentrated and small areas, which makes or expands cities. When over half of the population moves or lives in these small concentrated areas, the country is categorized as urbanized (“Urbanization” 1). In the 19th and 20th century, countries in Europe urbanized slowly so the government had time to plan and implement projects and plans (“Urbanization” 1). More recently, rapid urbanization has begun to take place in other parts of the globe....
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...ntially snowball effects is to improve education by keeping all possible children in school and off the streets and implement a dour crime system with more employees of the law and create a pragmatic policy. The reason why this has not been implemented earlier is due to the greed of the rich, and the poor people's inability to advocate. The rich in third world countries are frightful of losing their fantastic economic status that they will not advocate for what is fair. While the poor do not get the chance to advocate for themselves because they do not have the means, whether that be time, money or education level. The poor in these nations are silenced, and their daily struggle with being a good person, avoiding danger, and their desperation for fundamental needs can only be enlightened by the benevolent international programs that have the means to lobby for them.
Reading the article “City Solution” introduce students to previous solution to urbanization. Greenbelt are said to be like a ring of green space that prevent the growth of a city. The original idea derived from Ebenezer Howard who saw the negative side of urbanization and come up with a theory to migrate people to the rural area and resist the dispersion of poorly managed urbanization. Howard’s original idea was to prevent the city from overcrowding and provide the city with more greens. At present, even though urbanization continue to grow, human are reacting to it with a new dimension and put more thoughts in planning the city to prevent Howard’s horror from his living in London during the 20th century.
1.WHAT MUST BE DONE TO CHANGE THE LIVING CONDITIONS IN INNER-CITY AND LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HELP GENERATE CRIME?
Beall, Joe. Basudeb, Khasnobis. Kanbur, Ravi. Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Starting in the 70s, studies in the US has shown links between unemployment, poverty and crime. The connection between poverty and crime is that they’re both concentrated in certain areas around the country. Where you find poverty is also where you find crime. Also unemployment leads to poverty and crime, violent crimes are linked to hard times and the lack of social cohesion or harmony. Once convicted of a crime, it is hard to get a job and the vicious cycle gets more vicious. This does not include crimes such as corruption, embezzlement, and other such crimes that cause damage to people's lives but in an indirect type of violence. These components combine to show how the curse of a life of poverty can make one more inclined to be involved in violent crime.
...rt there will be no urbanization. Economy has its own rules and its own development. We cannot "push" or "speed up" subjectively, Destructive Enthusiasm in urban planning will be a dead end. Therefore, in reality, we must guard against false or excessive urbanization driven by the interests of the regime and to halt the urban sprawl-style expansion, to achieve a gradual urbanization. "New Urbanism", "compact city", "smart growth" provides us with useful ideas. There are few tiny gaps between the focus of these concepts, but their main principle is the same, namely to improve the utilization efficiency of urban space and create policies to control urban sprawl. Change the city zoning concept, promoting diversification of land use; reduce reliability on motorized travel; improve public transport to stimulate the vitality of the city It is our common goal of the future
And last of all, modernisation is another cause of urbanisation as urbanised places are usually characterised to have sophisticated technology, medical services and facilities, communication and much more. Many people feel as though these these characteristics allow for a more comfortable
Urban sprawl may be considered as another word for urbanization. It refers to the migration of a population from populated towns and cities to low density development over more and more rural land.
have risen greatly. In 2003 there was a murder every 27 minutes. Now there is a
According to the worldwide statistics American crime rates is on the rise than any other continent. During the 1980s-1990s the rise of crime and murder was going up than any other time period. The social problem then was lack of jobs, fathers neglecting their children and kids non even caring about school. Today, the sociological imagination is that the rise of crime is due to our local government giving up on us.
You can’t turn on the television, or read the paper without hearing about violence in our cities and world. In a report from “Stand Up for Kids” in Chicago, they analyze the relationship between low wages, income inequality, and the epidemic of violence in Chicago’s low income neighborhoods. This report found that in 2012 there were nearly 7,700 gun-related crimes reported in the city. The city of Chicago has the third highest overall metropolitan poverty rate in the nation. Nearly one quarter of all Chicago residents live below the federal poverty threshold according to this report. ("Chicago Not Only Leads the Nation in Gun Violence Rates, but Also in Measures of Urban Poverty." Stand Up Chicago, 1 Feb. 2013. Web. 7 Oct. 2014.) Decades of research have demonstrated that there is a statistically significant link between low wages, income inequality and crime. The analysis presented in this report shows that when a city’s economic conditions improve, the violent crime rates go down.( "Chicago Not Only Leads the Nation in Gun Violence Rates, but Also in Measures of Urban Poverty." Stand Up Chicago, 1 Feb. 2013. Web. 7 Oct. 2014.) Parents and children are turning to violent acts to provide for their family needs. Policy makers and the government need to address the issues of persistent poverty and income inequality such as raising the minimum wage to a living wage and create satisfying jobs for the
From 1991-2000, statistically there was a dramatic decline in crime nationally. The statistics studied were of all categories of crimes considered serious, including: homicides which decreased by 39%; rape which decreased by 41%; robbery which decreased by 44%; aggravated assault which decreased by 24%; burglary which decreased by 41%; auto theft which decreased by 37%; and larceny which decreased by 23%. The statistics show a range of decline of 23-44%! (United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation 1990, 2000. Uniform Crime Report. Washington, D.C.) The evidence indicates that the benefit of declining crime rates are concentrated on specific groups with...
The FBI defines violent crimes in the UCR Program as those offenses, which involve force or threat of force. Conklin (2013) categorizes violent crime as murder, forcible rape, robbery, and assault. Many times, the preceding offenses would take the form of clerical sexual abuse of children, intimate partner violence, hate crimes, terrorism, or genocide (Conklin, 2013). Violent crimes are also called “offenses against the person,” meaning that the physical body of another person was harmed (Conklin, 2013).
Urbanization is the movement from a rural society to an urban society, and involves a growth in the number of people in urban areas. Urban growth is increasing in both the developed but mostly in the developing countries. Urbanization is associated with the problems of unemployment, poverty, bad health, poor cleanliness, urban slums environmental deprivation. This causes a very big problem for these developing countries and who are some of poorest countries. Africa urbanization is not as big as most developing countries but is on the rise for it outbursts in city growth lately. (Saundry, 2008).
Indeed, many global cities face compelling urban planning issues like urban sprawl, population, low density development, overuse of non-renewable natural recourses, social inequities and environmental degradation. These issues affect the cities themselves, the adjacent regions and often even globally. The resulting ecological footprint upsets the balance in adjacent rural and natural areas. Unplanned or organic development leads to urban sprawl, traffic problems, pollution and slums (as evident in the case of Mumbai city). Such unplanned development causes solid waste management and water supply to fall inadequate. Urban sprawl gives rise to low density development and car dependent communities, consequently leading to increased urban flooding, low energy efficiency, longer travel time and destruction of croplands, forests and open spaces for development.
Crime destroys the very fabric of a civilized society. It stops the growth of a country and creates fear among its citizens. Though crime is inevitable in any society, yet it has to be kept at minimum level. But same in not true in India where crime rate is consistently rising. An ordinary citizen is fearful not only of stepping outside their home but they are not safe in their home too.