The Relationship Between Socio Economic Factors and Crime

I am going to find out if a relationship between unemployment and

disorder in Stockton on tees, Cleveland. I think there will be a

positive link between them as some unemployed people may cause trouble

as they are bored and have nothing to do all day. They can also get

drunk during the day as a result of them not having jobs. They then

become disorderly.

Method

To get information on disorder i used Safer Stockton partnership

booklet called Tackling Crime and Disorder. I read a copy of this in

the Thornaby Community School library it gives information on all

types of crimes in the 30 wards of Stockton. Crimes shown include

forgery, drugs, burglary and disorder. This booklet splits Stockton up

into 4 areas which are :- Billingham, Stockton, Thornaby, and Yarm and

Villages. It also tells of crime in the 30 smaller wards for example

it shows Egglescliffe as 50 disorders per 1000 people in year. I used

this booklet as it has collected its information from goverment

sources such as the police and magistrates courts. This information I

think will be therefore reliable. It has also split the information up

into the wards of Stockton and this has saved me a lot of time and

difficulty in having to interview people such as the local Cleveland

police force and even Criminals.

To find out about unemployment in Stockton I used information from the

Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit. It investigates jobs and the economy

of the Cleveland region its its information is reliable as it uses

information from the National Office of Statistics. It also gives

useful information to match my disorder figures for example

Egglescliffe in the year 2000 had 3.3% rate of unemployment.

I will use Spearmans Rank Correlation Coefficient as this is a

recognized statistical method to show a relationship between variable.

Because I am using 30 wards when only 15 are needed to complete

Spearmans this will produce reliable results. To use Spearmans I rank

the 30 wards in Stockton in terms of those with the highest