Writing Homework Help

1) Age, gender, social class, and race are all linked to criminal behavior. Choose one and explain the connection it has to crime as identified by research. Explain the implications this link has in preventing future crimes.

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The DQ response must be at least 200 words and should have at least one reference in APA format

2) Write a 100-word response to each student in first person as if you were writing it to the students. Talk about how you agree with their ideas and add your own thoughts. Make sure it’s respectful.

Student 1) The connection social class has linked to criminal behavior is that systems of crime control socially construct selectively enforced and differentially applied norms to social groups, according to relationships of power, status, and authority.

In terms of the operations of crime control, poor persons still have fewer resources or less power working for them in negotiating outcomes within and without the criminal justice system than the affluent or middle classes. And, when poor persons are of color or are female too, they usually hold even less power, and if they are all three-poor, of color, and female-then they typically possess lesser power still.”

Social class is linked because there is no avaliabilty of resources. When there are no resources or very limited resources, then it leads to poverty. This is why the lower social class has a higher crime rate. The implications social class has in preventing future crimes is having more resources, not being in poverty, having equal opportunity, and a way to eat and feed their families without having to commit a crime.

Reference

Potter, Gary W. and Victor E. Kappeler. 1998 (eds.). Constructing Crime: Perspectives On Making News and Social Problems. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Schwartz, Martin D., and Dragan Milovanovic. 1996. (eds.). Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology: The Intersection. New York: Garland Publishing.

Student 2) An offender’s criminal behavior can be classified into four parts. Age, gender social class, and race. All of which are crucial and weigh heavily into the decisions a person makes, for this dialogue, I am concentrating on social class. According to Ring (2007, p.210), a person’s social class performs a massive role in their upbringing. Social class experience is usually thought to be a reason to take into consideration when examining criminality. By way of study, it Is discovered that individuals of lesser income households have a tendency to commit more crimes than individuals raised up in upper class homes. I see this very often as it relates to juveniles. A huge majority of the teenagers that come through the Richland County Juvenile Detention Center likely to be in low-income families with little to nothing to their names. Causing in charges stretching from burglary, robbery, and trespassing. Whereas the individuals that come from advantaged upper-class homes, be likely to commit crimes for possessing little quantities of drugs, usually because they have enough money to purchase it.

To avoid potential crimes, help could be offered to families in lesser income neighborhoods, so they know that they don’t need to rob or perpetrate crimes to get by. The same as a larger police presence to avert the crimes from occurring in the first place. Subsequently, I think that social class is one of the major reasons that determines one’s criminal behavior.

Reference:

Ring, J. (2007). Social class and criminality among young people: A study considering the effects of school achievement as a mediating factor on the basis of Swedish register and self-report data. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 8(2), 210-233. Retrieved from

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14043850701610451?journalCode=scri20