SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Class Conflict, Conflict Theories
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In the 90s, useful offenders found that chrystler cars were easier to steal, causing high levels of motor theft. You could possibly disperse crime in that area, 5% of the locations were responsible for 64% of the calls to the police (?) which resulted in an increase in guardianship in those areas. In this research, 110 hot spots were chosen (bars, street corners, places were liquor was sold etc) and were split up into 2 groups of 55 each. It was noted that the experimental group had twice the police attention as compared to the control group. Examples: shoot in scarborough led mayor ford to introduce crackdowns in neighbourhood, airports post 9/11, presence of surveillance cameras in. These were all instances where control was engineered into our environment. However, it is quite evasive and assumes that all offenders are rational actors as they consider costs and benefits of committing crime.
