News Article

            Crime Control Strategy

            Section 1

            The article that I have selected asserts on things that causes inner urban fledgling men to murder each other.  The article holds that violence among the young individuals is caused by poverty, family breakdown, discrimination as well as subjected stress. Additionally, concrete failure of the society contributes greatly to the rise of violence. This involves a gang culture that is developed from bad schooling, unemployment, lack of health and lack of proper care from the governing institutions.   This, therefore, results in increased rate of crime thus serving long-term prison sentences as violent equipment such as guns are readily available (Rosenberg, 2015).

            Therefore courts, as well as schools, are working together to ensure that the occurrence of violence has been curbed. Several organizations have additionally been set to ensure that they work together and they are mainly focused in the low-status neighborhood which has higher rates of violence occurrence.  The organizations are utilizing mentoring and counseling as well as unfamiliar sports such as wrestling and archery in delivering a form of behavior cognitive therapy. This strategy has thus been effective as it helps individuals in developing more effective and realistic thinking (Rosenberg, 2015).

            Section 2

            From the crime statistics, there are more than 44% violent crimes that are influenced by a low understanding of individuals view.  Since the implementation of the program, violent cases have reduced by 44% (Rosenberg, 2015).  The attendance of the youths in schools has also developed thus gaining higher achievements than before. The programs, therefore, aim at creating societies that are free from crimes.  The programs work with the assumption that since the rate of crime cannot be achieved by poverty eradication provision of understanding and better thinking helps in solving violence issues among the young individuals (Rosenberg, 2015).

            This strategy was designed to encourage students to often question their automatic biases and thoughts as most of them act through quick thoughts.  The programs, therefore, work on regulating understanding of others view, impulses and developing thoughts of the acts consequences before the actual act (Rosenberg, 2015).

 

 

 

 

            Reference

            Rosenberg, T. (2015). For Better Crime Prevention, a Dose of Science. Retrieved from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/making-sure-crime-prevention-pays/?_r=0