discuss wheather childhood is a social construction
What lessons might the UK learn from American attempts to prevent crime and reduce ‘disorder’ in public space through new policing powers and methods?
On the 4th August 2011 Mark Dugan was shot dead in Tottenham, after raising a weapon to a local police officer. This triggered riots starting in London and then quickly travelling to other cities around the country, this was described by the newspapers as ‘copycat behaviour’ (Pilkington 2011). A protest began to take place just 2 days after the shooting of Dugan, where crowds became bigger and began attacking police cars. The fires which started in Tottenham began burning through towns and cities for 4 nights. There was as many as 15,000 people taking to the streets, where 5 people died, thousands were injured and more than 4000 were arrested (Lewis, 2011). Many people joined in with burning down building and stealing from shops as there were more people involved then there was police trying to prevent it so they were seen to be in control. The police had lack of control during the riots which has lead the UK to look towards prevention techniques in order to reduce ‘disorder’ in public space and to look at new policing powers and methods. Throughout this essay I will be looking at crime prevention techniques that some of America’s larger cities use and see if the UK could learn from these to make the UK a safer place.
In the early 1990’s William Bratton; a new commissioner for the New York police department, based his attention on working on subways to prevent crime and reduce disorder, he was also able to acquire new equipment and weapons for his officers. Bratton was influenced by Wilson and Kelling who created the Broken Window theory in 1980. This theory was understood that if you crack down on minor crimes then it will prevent major crimes from happening. If a community ignores small offences such as broken windows on a parked car then larger offences such as burglary and robbery will follow. This theory
On the 4th August 2011 Mark Dugan was shot dead in Tottenham, after raising a weapon to a local police officer. This triggered riots starting in London and then quickly travelling to other cities around the country, this was described by the newspapers as ‘copycat behaviour’ (Pilkington 2011). A protest began to take place just 2 days after the shooting of Dugan, where crowds became bigger and began attacking police cars. The fires which started in Tottenham began burning through towns and cities for 4 nights. There was as many as 15,000 people taking to the streets, where 5 people died, thousands were injured and more than 4000 were arrested (Lewis, 2011). Many people joined in with burning down building and stealing from shops as there were more people involved then there was police trying to prevent it so they were seen to be in control. The police had lack of control during the riots which has lead the UK to look towards prevention techniques in order to reduce ‘disorder’ in public space and to look at new policing powers and methods. Throughout this essay I will be looking at crime prevention techniques that some of America’s larger cities use and see if the UK could learn from these to make the UK a safer place.
In the early 1990’s William Bratton; a new commissioner for the New York police department, based his attention on working on subways to prevent crime and reduce disorder, he was also able to acquire new equipment and weapons for his officers. Bratton was influenced by Wilson and Kelling who created the Broken Window theory in 1980. This theory was understood that if you crack down on minor crimes then it will prevent major crimes from happening. If a community ignores small offences such as broken windows on a parked car then larger offences such as burglary and robbery will follow. This theory