Question

Please answer the question thoroughly. Write 2-3 Paragraphs.

1) Property crimes such as larceny, including shoplifting, and burglary often receive less attention than violent crimes. Explain how these crimes can have significant effects on businesses and neighborhoods. What can homeowners, business owners, and police do to reduce these crimes?

Answer 1

A victim of a crime may possibly experience many different kinds of effects:

• Direct costs and inconvenience due to theft of or damage to property (including time off work).
• The physical effects of injury through violent crime.
• Guilt at having become the victim of crime and feelings one could have prevented it (whether or not this was at all possible).
• Psychological effects such as anger, depression or fear, which, in serious cases, can cause sleeplessness, flashbacks to the offence or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
• Feelings of anxiety through shock that such a thing has happened and worries about revictimisation, sometimes leading to feelings of loss of trust in one’s community and in society.
• Limiting one’s social life or work life, or changing one’s lifestyle, by not going to places like where the crime occurred or being afraid to go out altogether, because of unease or fears of revictimisation.
• Taking extra crime preventive measures.
• Dealing with insurance claims and, for those for whom the crime is reported to the police, the police and other parts of the criminal justice system.

How to reduce such crimes?

• Disorder poliing: This is a policing strategy to reduce crime and delinquency by focusing efforts on disorderly neighborhood conditions and minor crime offenses. This practice is rated Effective for reducing multiple types of crime and delinquency, and rated Promising for reducing specific types of crimes, including property, violent, and drug and alcohol offenses.
• Public surveillance systems include a network of cameras and components for monitoring, recording, and transmitting video images. Public surveillance cameras are designed to reduce both property and personal crime. This practice is rated Promising for reducing overall crime, property crime, and vehicle crime, and rated No Effects for impacting violent crime.
• Citizens remain alert for suspicious activities and report those activities to the police.