The Act of Violent Crime

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In the act of violent crime, the criminal uses the threat or physical violence against the victim. The violent crime act considered as manslaughters, murder, physical assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, and robbery or burglary. In this essay, I will analysis the violent crime, its movements, causes and method to moderate or reduce the violent crime through the different criminologist theories or views.

This article assesses the teenager’s involves in violent crime and their high arrest rate due to the economic deprivation and lack of future success in youth. It gathered the information from California Criminal Justice Statistics arrest and census poverty statistics for 2010 to symbolize that the poverty is the principal cause to commit violent crime offense. The drop in poverty will help to decline the crime rate in both young and elder people. The criminologist represented that the juvenile get involved in more crime and also the punishment for them has been increased.
Nevertheless, the criminologist includes the “Biological and Development theory of youthful crime which states that early age has high involvement in crime in contrast to older aged people” (Pratt & Cullen, 2005: 9). Also, “The Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Individual level theory represents that poverty and social elements are responsible for escalating the crime” (Pratt & Cullen, 2005: 9). It gathers the data from UCR for 2011and California’s Criminal Justice Statistics Center for 2012 regarding the violent arrest by age, race, county and poverty.
However, the article has limitation that it talked about poverty more than identify individual behavior. The article does offer valuable sources for this essay as it includes overview of different theories to expla...

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Works Cited

Brownridge, D. A.(2010). Intimate partner violence against aboriginal men in Canada. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43 (2), 223-237.
Collins, R. E. (2010). The effect of gender on violent and nonviolent recidivism: A meta-analysis. Journal of Criminal Justice, 38 (4), 675-684.
Browning, S., & Erickson, P. (2009). Neighborhood disadvantage, alcohol usage, and violent victimization. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 7 (4), 331-349.
Strom, K. J., Warner, T. D., Tichavsky, L., & Zahn, M. A. (2014). Policing juveniles: Domestic violence arrest policies, gender, and police response to child-parent violence. Crime and Delinquency, 60 (3), 427-450.
Males, M. A., & Brown, E. A. (2013). Teenagers' High Arrest Rates: Features of Young Age or Youth Poverty? Journal of Adolescent Research, 29(1), 3-24.

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