Criminology

Criminology

Crime is the act of breaking the norms of the society to get anything or to kill someone. The rate of crime is increasing day by day in US. The researchers of the US Earls, Sampson, and Raudenbush tried to find something that would help explain why crime levels varied among neighborhoods, which were similar in many ways. The “broken window” theory hypothesized that petty crime leads to bigger crime. Their research led to collective efficacy, which is the trust upon neighbors that can affect change. The each would have interpreted this data as proposing a relationship between the shortages of ...