Assignment:
For Detroit, Michigan
1. What do the statistics indicate: has the crime rate increased or decreased in the past five years?
2. What do you think are the main reasons for the increase or decrease in the crime rate?
3. What type of crime is more prevalent?
4. What type of crime is least prevalent?
5. Explain the nature and extent of crime that is occurring in Michigan. How the crime statistics have changed over the years. How do they compare to national statistics? How big/small is the crime problem?
6. Explain why you think the crime picture is the way that it is by using at least two criminological theories.
7. Describe the major premise of the theory, who the theorists are who are associated with it, and then apply the theory to the crime problem(s).
Provide some action plans (strategies/programs) based on the theory you chose to help reduce crime Michigan.