SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: List Of Knot Terminology, Geoffrey Pearson, Toronto Star
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Why are crime rates decreasing? (a widespread phenomena: they are also declining in the us and uk) Additional notes: tavis toronto anti-violence initiative strategy lead to a controversial practice (carding). These sorts of initiatives probably had unwanted consequences. Windows philosophy zero tolerance initiated in ny. The idea is that if we don"t take care of/pay attention to the small stuff, it will have an effect on the major stuff. Crime rate did decline in ny but other cities like boston declined as well without this philosophy. Increased access to abortion law making it easy for women to have abortions. These young women aborting the babies possibly prevented the babies growing up to be young criminals. However reasonable the abortion law is, it"s only likely to explain a small portion of that. Prevention various preventive strategies like introduction of anti-violence programs in high school and claims that these have positive impacts on crime rates.
