The Role Of Crime In The Ghetto Community

ethnic groups occurred in every ‘transitional’ neighborhood, the ‘succession’ of African Americans out of their areas of ‘first settlement’ was systematically blocked” (Hagedorn 197). By doing the aforementioned the white gang’s behaviors have contributed to the racial segregation of Chicago and the explosive gang related crime in the present day south side of Chicago.

Tommie Shelby is an American philosopher and a professor of African American studies at Harvard University. In his article “Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto” Shelby discusses poor, black neighborhoods that have persisted in America for decades due to few public policy efforts to make things better. In his article Shelby brings up two approaches to this dilemma that he opposes. The first is the personal responsibility approach which appeals to American values of hard work and ultimately places blame on the poor rather than the government or society. The Technocratic approach on the other hand does the opposite. It blames the government for failing to fix the social conditions of the poor and refuses to blame the poor themselves even if they have done actions that have not necessarily improved their well-being. Shelby’s approach is a mix between the two. He says that we cannot blame the poor if the injustice of our society has changed the content of their obligations and thus making their behavior reasonable due to the unfair conditions they were subjected to. In other words they are a product of their environment. Shelby wants to get his point across that the existence of ghettos today is evidence that our society impaired by structural injustices and that the ghetto is not only the problem of those living in it, but all of ours.

One thing I found interesting was in the second reading, “Segregated From Its History: How Ghetto Lost Its Meaning,” was that I didn’t know that Jews were segregated in Ghettos way before the Holocaust. I didn’t know they were targeted long before that time (In the Era of Jesus) before this class and reading this put it at a different perspective. Another thing I found interesting was the poll included in the third document, “Sorry, America, You’re Wrong, the Jews Did Not Kill Jesus.” I didn’t know that so many people blamed ALL Jews for the death of Christ.

Jill Leovy is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Ghettoside: A True Story Of

In Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto, Shelby argues that the urban poor’s refusal to work in legitimate jobs or engagement in criminal activity is justified as it does not violate the principle of reciprocity or neglect civic obligations. Shelby’s arguments focuses on determining whether or not deviant behavior is reasonable from the perspective of justice and reciprocity in society. This principle of reciprocity is derived from Rawl’s doctrines such as the basic structure of society and justice as fairness. In this paper, I will reconstruct Shelby’s argument that deviant behavior does not necessarily violate an individual’s civic obligations. I will argue that Shelby’s dichotomy of moral and civic obligations is arbitrarily defined

In Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto, Shelby contends that the urban poor’s refusal to work in legitimate jobs and engagement in criminal activity is justified as it does not violate the principle of reciprocity or infringe upon civic obligations. Shelby’s arguments focus on determining whether or not deviant behavior is reasonable from the perspective of justice and reciprocity in society. This principle of reciprocity is derived from Rawl’s doctrines such as the basic structure of society and justice as fairness. In this paper, I will reconstruct Shelby’s argument that deviant behavior does not necessarily violate an individual’s civic obligations to society. I will argue that Shelby’s dichotomy of moral and civic obligations is arbitrarily

By resolving the panhandling issue, the major issue, you can also start eliminating some of the smaller problems. Panhandling is a serious crime because they start to harass the residents and steal money from those that have sympathy to there lies. When residents give the panhandlers money, more and more panhandlers will come in the neighborhood to seek out the same opportunities. One thing that police officers can do is meet with the residents so that they can voice their opinion about the rundown homes in the community. At this time they can also seek any suggestions on how to correct the problem. The first thing for officers to do is search these homes for squatters and criminal. They should be check to see if they have any warrants. If no warrants they are

Removing gang members is a temporary solution as they remain incarcerated however the root cause of crime and such ‘heinous acts’ is because they are stuck in a cycle of poverty in a city with few opportunities to climb up the social ladder, where practically everything is impossible for one who identifies themselves as non-white, and this remains

“The Jews were convinced that it couldn’t get any worse. The truth is that, to the very end, every stage was more difficult and more terrible. The dynamics of this development are the essence of horror” (Vashem, 2010). A ghetto is a part of a city where Jews were forced to live in horrendous conditions. Even though a ghetto was a transitional stage, it was still an atrocious place to be.

Crime can transpire anywhere and everywhere. There is a direct connection between an individual’s background and criminals. When an individual is growing up, they have their own moral compass that is developing. It is typically influenced by things around them such as their parents, income, education, and peers. Sometimes the compass detours into a different direction and they end up conducting criminal activities. After reviewing statistics, it’s easy to understand that most criminals come from poor communities, in which, minorities hold much of the population. I believe this is the main contributing factor of why blacks are holding the high numbers of incarcerations. Hispanics, poor whites and other nationalities also predominate for being incarcerated, as well.

What kind of challenges do you anticipate in implementing solutions locally? Educate people to become active in bettering our neighborhoods. There are crimes being committed in the communities and the communities keep quiet. When a crime happens no one reports since they’re in fear what may happen to them. The communities need to know that they have a voice that needs to be heard.

1) I really liked how the idea that the black community want to have a good relationship with the police. They do not want the law enforcement system to disappear, but they deserve equal treatment between those of color and white individuals. Crime is a serious issue in black communities, and the groups living in these areas want to be protected and served. The profiling targeting blacks needs to end and it is a topic that needs to be discussed.

Crime is something that happens every day. Many people fear it, but it is a factor that people cannot escape. In places, like Detroit, people are surrounded by violent crime. Either they are the victims of it, or the committers, but it was not always like this. During the sixties, Detroit was one of the most lucrative cities in the country. Many people moved there to seek jobs in the automotive factories which increased the population to 1.85 million. (Padnani, 2013) However, this is not the case now. Many of the factories have moved, putting people and their families at a disadvantage. A numerous amount of workers relied on these jobs to feed their families. Since then, Detroit has faced a significant amount of hardships that has caused the city to deteriorate effecting education, employment, and the crime rate each factor acts as a chain reaction. The lack of diversity in the city can be a factor of the crime rate as well because Detroit is filled with a large population of minorities. Many politicians have looked for ways to solve the problem, but nothing has been proven to work.

The first solution is to establish a neighborhood watch team for the most troubled neighborhoods. Security equipment can be equipped around the blocks and it can be monitored on a shift basis by willing locals. The price would be little to nothing if residents are very passionate in keeping their neighborhood a safe place, they can work for free and in return they will have a secure neighborhood. Security equipment can be either paid for by the city or the watch team can crowdfund for the funds to pay for it all. Benefits for this solution will include less crime, criminals won’t act as much knowing that now someone is watching them, and new people can move into the neighborhoods. Some major drawbacks that this can probably cause is residents not taking job seriously and lying about their shifts since they are not being paid for it, and maybe even seeing crimes take place but being paid off to not report it to the

operate with the police. The community relies on the police department to keep their city safe,