According to Geertz (1973) a society can be defined as ̒ the actual arrangement of social relations.̓ Due to the fact that societies can be influenced by a number of factors, there are likely to be several social problems in each community. Moreover, these problems can lead to deteriorated conditions especially if governments and organisations do not act toward them. Regarding this significant connection between individuals and their communities, it is worth investigating these problems in order to reach some solutions or reduce the noticeable effects of these issues. This essay will limit itself to the predicaments appearing above the age of in British cities. In general, these cities usually suffer from three main problems.
The first problem that affects modern British cities is poverty with its noticeable impacts on these cities. Wallop (2009) states that in Britain, a family can be stated below the poverty line when its income, after tax, is 60% or less of the national median income. However, recent researches suggested that approximately 17.8 per cent of the population are considered below the poverty line and this percentage is likely to increase (ibid). For a long time poverty has affected British cities in several negative way. For instance, it can lead to rioting in which public facilities, private properties and governments’ buildings are likely to be attacked and damaged. According to BBC NEWS (as cited in Morgan 2007), in 2001, Bradford, Oldham and Burnley had the worst rioting during the last 20 years in Britain. Rioting usually appear as a result of low standard of living and poverty leads to such standards. Another impact is that the children under the poverty line experience many difficulties in attending to a s...
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...is might stop the conflicts between gangs and give an advantage to the policemen while attacking gangsters. The Home Office (2008) ̒ there was an increase by 18% in firearms-incidents between 2006 and 2007. There is a substantial concern over the effect of this problem so officials should devote a high attention to this problem and try to limit its results.
In conclusion, the impact of the mentioned problems can be reduced by raising wariness and educating people. Ordinary people are one of the elements in the solution of these people as they can as they can affect the success of any solution. In addition, encouraging the public to help each other in tacking these problems would lead to a fraternal and cooperative society. There is a national concern toward these problems. Therefore, tackling the roots of these issues should be on the government’s priorities.
Because of budget constraints, the study only used one beat to collect data on the effects of increasing police patrol. Even though money was an issue, the experiment could have yielded better data by repeating the experiment multiple times to see if the data they collected would be reliable. The experiment also took place during the winter. The report of the study even noted that there was some evidence that crime activity levels declined, just as street activity does, because of colder weather. Although the design of the study contained weaknesses, some of the methods used by the researchers worked well for this type of study. One of the strengths of this experiment was the different methods used to acquire illegal guns in the beat. By using a variation of ways to seize illegal weapons in the “hot spot,” it allowed officers to increase their chances of finding more illegal guns. Using different methods of search also could have led to greater number of potential offenders to know that officers were looking for illegal weapons and refrained from offending. Another strength of the study includes the relatively inexpensive method to try to answer their hypothesis. Increasing police patrol is one of the more inexpensive methods and it did manage to decrease the number of gun crimes and homicide in the
social problems may affect us in the future as it up to us as the new
A private problem, which only affects a small percentage of people, arises. This problem can exists between two private groups or between government and a private group of citizens. Through the use of a catalyst, like the media or interest groups, more people become aware that this specific problem exists and might one day affect their everyday lives. Thus, the p...
“The UK went through a steep learning curve regarding gun violence in the period after 1996, especially the police,” says Professor Peter Squires, a criminologist at the University of Brighton and author of Gun Culture or Gun Control?, which examines British and US responses to mass shootings. “I have no doubt they began to better understand the working of the criminal gun market, and better control both supply (trafficking) and demand (mainly gangs) within it.”
In the article, “The Community Question Re-Evaluated”, the author Barry Wellman suggests that the change in nature of community is inevitable. Many people are stressful about changes their communities are going through such as loneliness, alienation leading to a “war of all against all.” They would often compare their modern times community to of their pre-industrial predecessors. However, inhabitants of contemporary societies should have less to worry about than their ancestors with ‘respect to the basics of human life.’ Instead comparing contemporary crime and political violence rates with the past, we should seek to gain deeper understand of how our community changes- “how the large-scale structure of social systems reciprocally affects the small-scale structure and contents of interpersonal relations within them.” The social changes in large-scale systems are suggested to be associated with the Industrial Revolution which affected the structure and operations of the community. Social commentators suggested that large-scales faced the impacts of industrialization, capitalism, imperialism, bureaucratization and technological developments which then dripped down onto the interpersonal relations. They noted that the large-scale reorganization of production has created new opportunities for community relations. For example, industrialization had reduced poverty and that working-class home ownership would heighten neighborhood communal bonds. Although the analyses are well debatable, Wellman believes that community may have changed in response to the pressure, opportunities and constraints of large-scale forces.
Policing relies on the public trust, police legitimacy and accountability, which can be destroyed by unjustifiable police shootings (Squires and Kennninson, 2010). Within this country, there is a recognition that the police do not always adhere to the rule of law (Newburn and Reiner, 2012: 809), which has led to consistent public outrage at the lack of effectiveness and legitimacy the police has maintained. Therefore the deliberate decision to enforce police to attend to the streets unarmed was employed to reassure the public that the police were not to be feared (Waddington and Wright, 2010). Ultimately, concerns derive from the belief that the police are completely ineffective when dealing with gun crimes (Farrell, 1992: 20). However, whilst arming police with guns can act as a protector when on duty it can also cause an increase in police misconduct. This issue will be discussed throughout this essay.
middle of paper ... ... Law enforcement and criminal imprisonment have more of an effect on crime than any gun control law. Gun education and hunter’s education also improved. Focusing efforts on the root of the problem has yielded results and lowered crime.
Race and religious riots are now commonplace (we call them ‘summer riots’), when the inner city youth come out to do a bit of plundering. Direct/indirect taxation now takes around 50% of a salary – our sales tax (VAT) alone is 20%! Diseases previously thought erradicated are making a come back, specifically TB and Polio and our wonderful socialised medical health care is on the brink of bankruptcy and has been for many years. Pumping more and more money into a bottomless pit hasn’t solved the
need to be dealt with. These problems are not just intended for a certain group who are facing
Living in poverty and fuel poverty can relate to poor quality housing which can negatively ‘impact on wellbeing, physical and social development’ including school attendance, education and training, teenage pregnancy and crime (Newcastle LA Profile, 2013). The health of the population in Newcastle upon Tyne is wide-ranging in comparison with the England average; however life expectancy for both men and women in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is lower than the England average, with women living on average 1.3 years less than the England average and men living on average 2.1 years less than the England average (Apho.org.uk, 2013).
The problem is the occurrence of a person or several people in an alley or a dilemma, there are many aspects of the problem, political and social and personal. In this paper, I will discuss the social problems and their definitions and stages. The definition of social problems changed over time because the problems that have occurred in the past may not be congruent with what is happening now because of the evolution of time and the difference of individuals living in society. Social problems are the general factors that affect and damage society.
at least try to get a job. If there are more people like this, the country
As the problems in society arise, it is the duty of every individual to ease the
There are many things wrong with society today. Some of the problems could be easily solved, while others may be impossible to solve. Today, many of the problems we have in society people feel the government should fix seeing as they are in charge. But, many of the problems start and should end with people doing their part as a group and want to make the world a better place for future generations. Not all problems in society can be fixed at once, but with people coming together we can come closer to bettering our society as a whole. Three major problems in society today would be: racism, violence, and immigration.
As a result, research and public policies are designed to try and solve the problems. Dye (2008, p 7) observed that, in the American context the problems faced by communities include; ingnorance, crime, poverty, racial conflict, inequality, poor housing and ill health. It follows that in attempting to resovle these issues there are limitations that disturb the good process of public policy for the benefit of the society. Dye (2008, p 7) said, “there are many reasons for tempering our enthusiasim for policy analysis, some of which are illustrated in the battle over education policy”. The reasons or limitaions include; limits on government power, disagreement over the problem and complexity of human behavior. Argawal and Somanathan (2005, p 13) has discussed the shortcomings to public policy in resovling economic and political issues as excessive overlap between policy making and implementation in the context of India and some of those are; excessive fragmentation in thinking and action, excessive overlap between policy making and implementation, lack of non-governmental inputs and informed debate, lack of systematic analysis and integration prior to policy-making and reforming the policy-making