Urban Crimes

For decades researchers have tried to determine why crime rates are stronger and why different crimes occur more often in different locations. Certain crimes are more prevalent in urban areas for several reasons. Population, ethnicity, and inequality all contribute to the more popular urban. Determining why certain crimes occur more often than others is important in Criminal Justice so researchers can find a trend and the police can find a solution. According to the Uniform …

…defend what little they possess, they will steel to survive, drink to become numb to the world, and become involved with drugs to make a little money or escape the world around them. These five most prevalent crimes exist simply because urban areas are so large and cannot support all the lives within them. Cities are more crime prone and it appears that the social inequalities displayed today are the determining factors for urban crime.