THE SQUARE OF CRIME

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  • Square of Crime - Lea and Young.
    • Social structural factors and formal social control by state.
      • This influences the definition of crime and its social reasoning's. Whether law enforcements carries out the decision on whether or not it should be labelled as a crime. The types of policing and how the police can change crime levels by putting off offenders or catching them.
    • The public and the extent of informal social control.
      • How people they live with (families), hang around with (friends) and what the people in their community react to crime. Along with the public reporting offences they have witnessed or been a victim off. A persons perception of law enforcement.
    • The role of the victim.
      • How a person has become a victim and what they do about it. Victims are usually similar. Whether they report it. Their opinion on offender and whether they feel the law enforcement will actually do anything.
    • The Offenders
      • Why did they offender do the crime? What does it mean to them? Marginalized? Or part of deviant subculture? Relatively deprived?  or something else?

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