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Topic 5 Security
Topic 5 Security
ADS605
CHAPTER 5
SECURITY
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“In 1990, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia and Detroit all had
more than 500 murders, that is a rate considerably exceeding one a day. New York
City, for example, had 2,245 murders, Los Angeles 983, Chicago 851 and Houston
568. Per capita, however, cities like Dallas, Seattle, Detroit and San Antonio have
the highest rates. Property crime is also a problem in urban areas although it exists
in suburban regions as well. In 1990, NYC had over 500,000 incidents of property
crime, Los Angeles and Chicago over 200,000, and Houston
over 160,000.
These statistics suggest that cities are dangerous places. However, in any urban
area, crimes are not spread out evenly; they are committed in certain distinct
locations, usually in the poorer sections of town. There are, therefore, high and low
crime areas in any city and visitors should know about this difference. For any US
city, despite the troubling rates of crime, there are areas that are quite safe.”
TOPIC 5: Security
The urban crimes.
•High crime rates are troubling because they affect the ability of
people to use city space.
•Then that negatively affects the attractiveness of living there
and those people that can, will move out to the suburbs.
•Today the use of much public space in urban areas is limited
TOPIC 5: Security
The urban crimes.
•Crime pushes up the security budgets of companies and households
and results in billions of dollars in unnecessary medical expenses for
the victims of violent actions. It can also devastate property values and
the value of property is depressed.
•As a result, innocent households suffer doubly in crime-infested areas
because they are both victims of crime, in many cases, and also
because the value of their property declines.
•Type of crime will trigger the emergence of other crimes for example
drug abuse.
TOPIC 5: Security
Coping strategies for prevention of crime.
Crime has multiple meanings. Those meanings are socially constructed. The most
important differences in the meanings of crime occur between strictly legal definitions
and those that relate crime to the breaking of other codes and conventions – normative
definitions. The prevention strategies in not only by the authorities such as police but the
collaboration with and within the society. The desire among security and safety program
practitioners, policy makers, scholars, scientists, parents, and society to make sure people
in urban are healthy, happy, safe, and productive is not new. Security is about safety and
crime issues. Vary factors trigger the crime and all parties in the socitey should unite to
prevent and manage the statistic of crime.
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The Overseas Security Advisory Council https://www.osac.gov
High crime rates are troubling because they affect the ability of people to use city x
space.
Crime pushes up the security budgets of companies and households and results in x
billions of dollars in unnecessary medical expenses for the victims of violent
actions.
The emergence of Cyber Community is the growth of new technologies and the x
new information society, resulting in a increasing importance of geography and
space and, ultimately, of the physical structures of the metropolis.
Violence has indeed been a characteristic of cities historically, but the acts and x
causes limited.
Property Crime includes those offences involving the loss of property during which x
there is no use of violence by the perpetrators. 25 urban sociology (ADS605)
URBAN SOCIOLOGY
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-Urban community-
Author
Muhamad Fuad Bin Abdul Karim
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Author
Dr. Nor Hafizah Binti Mohamed Harith
norha561@salam.uitm.edu.my
Author
Ahmad Faiz Bin Yaacob
ahmad408@ns.uitm.edu.my