Causes of crime

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Causes of crime
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Causes of crime

• tackling crime and the causes of crime Tony
  Blair 1997
• There is more talk about a growing underclass who
  have turned to crime as their way of life
• As a result New labour have introduced social
  inclusion policies to try to turn the situation
  around

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Causes of crime

• break into 4 main reasons, social exclusion,
  drugs and alcohol, gender and greed

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Social exclusion

• There are no doubts between the connection
  between socially excluded groups and crime.

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Social Exclusion the causes

• Long term unemployment this causes poverty but
  also a lack of confidence and self esteem
• Long term unemployment can lead to debt, a poor
  diet and poor physical health

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Social Exclusion the causes

• Lack of education education is the key to
  prosperity
• Homelessness work is the way out of poverty, it
  is difficult to get a job if you do not have an
  address
• Therefore social exclusion can led to crime

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Bad Parenting

• Socially excluded parents tend to produce
  socially excluded children and vice versa
• Estelle Morris stated that bad parenting causes
  crime and Creates a cycle of disrespect BBC

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Peer pressure and Gang Culture

• Social exclusion also leads to a feeling of
  alienation from society
• young people in particular young males from
  impoverished backgrounds can end up involved in
  crime due to this.

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Peer pressure and Gang Culture

• Gang culture is a way of feeling part of
  something and sense of status
• They may become involved in drugs or alcohol due
  to peer pressure

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Greed!

• More pressure on people to buy the right goods
• Keep up with the Jones
• This can lead to an increase in crime as people
  want the goods they cant afford- leads to credit
  card fraud etc

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Drugs and alcohol

• Drug and alcohol addiction can also lead to crime
• People will commit crimes to fund their addiction
  eg theft, prostitution
• Drug related crimes have increased crack cocaine
  is associated with violent crime

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Case Study

• Too many Scots are excluded, by virtue of
  unemployment, low skill levels, poverty, bad
  health, poor housing or other factors, from full
  participation in society.Scottish office

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Case Study

• Glasgow has one of the highest poverty and
  unemployment rates in the UK
• Glasgow has a quarter of Scotland's homeless
  people
• Therefore boredom, lack of resources and
  facilities can lead to crime

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Case Study

• Education is often affected by truancy
• one in four older teenagers in the poorest
  communities were not in education, training or
  employment

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Case Study

• One in 17 of all 20-year-old men in Scotland were
  convicted of a crime in 2003
• Half of those in jail came from the poorest 155
  wards. A quarter were from the 53 most deprived
  council wards and 35 of those were in Glasgow,
  where Royston topped the league.

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Case Study

• The sort of factors that these young men had
  in common were poverty, but there were other
  factors like poor family contact, truanting,
  expulsion from schools and alcohol and, following
  on from that, drugs
• people become involved in car crime, petty
  theft and it goes on from there