‘1,000
knife crime victims in London each month’ even that title is enough to make
your toes curl. Why does this happen so much in London? You can blame some of
it on the media; they use crime extensively in their war with other papers for
profits. All that’s shown in London newspapers are crimes that go on, we always
read about it we are bombarded with it every single morning we jump on the jump
and grab the paper to read on the way to work.
Then
we question why are so many people in London stabbing one another? We can look
into the social disorganization theory, which is where a person’s physical and social
environments are primarily responsible for the behavioral choices that person makes.
Like a neighborhood that has fraying social structures is more likely to have
high crime rates. London is represented to be shown in such a bad way with
people growing up in a lower class family and in council estates that they get
themselves into these situations. Not all of this can be true, some people who
are from lower class families reach their goals and don’t go down the crime
route.
One
story that I wanted to look at was the stabbing in` Woolwich South East London,
two Muslim men hacked at and stabbed a British solider in front of dozens of
people in the middle of the day. The reason being as one of them
stated, “we swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until
you leave us alone. Your people will never be safe. The only reason we have
done this is because Muslims are dying by British soldiers every day..."
One
women has stated through a tweet 'dunno why I find it so surprising that
someone has been stabbed in woolwich, but its a bit shocking seen a person
on the floor bleeding'. How she can say its not surprising? Because it seems to
be happening all the time here and its becoming a norm. Woolwich can
be classed as one of the poorest postcodes around. This is where the social
disorganization theory comes in.
Chloe O'Brien
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