Morocco is unsafe As I grew up here in Morocco and more precisely in Temara, I was able to see and observe terrible scenes just in front of my eyes. People getting threatened with knifes or these small razor blades that they put in their mouth to hide it, and if you don’t do what they want, they will mark a scar on your face. These pictures were so shocking that they remained in my head for many years. As a matter of fact, my friends and I did our best to avoid empty and dark streets when returning from school especially when it’s the night to prevent getting mugged or even aggressed with no reason.
When I was about 10, years old my parents did not let me play far from our house I couldn’t figure out why until one day a friend of my neighbor got mugged and stabbed with a small knife just because he tried to run away from danger to safety. Sometimes a small disagreement or misunderstanding can escalate into people harming each other, and as a consequence, one or both of them can die or become disabled for the rest of their life. Furthermore, Morocco was known and still an unsafe place, it doesn’t matter if you are going to the supermarket 200 meters away from your house or take a taxi in the middle of the day. The
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And is even more when you don’t know where you put your steps. Getting mugged or assaulted isn’t something unusual or new. But is only making people getting more people aware of what is waiting them down the street. There are many theories that try to explain why people do commit crime. Financial problems is the central aspect of crime and to be more specific mugging and robbery, but in some other situations money has no power when it comes to excitement or even reputation. For me stopping crime in Morocco is not an easy task. Everyone should be aware of the consequences of the choices they make and the government has to do his best to make the streets safe again and let people enjoy the
Ron Clark describes situational crime prevention as ‘a pre-emptive approach that relies, not on improving society or its institutions, but simple on reducing opportunities for crime’. He identifies three features of measures aimed at situational crime prevention, firstly that they
Part biography, part social view, a very thoughtful look into inner-city violence and the rules surrounding it. This book describes how his personal history with violence influenced his work with youth and the programs that he has started to support youth. Geoffrey Canada describes the progression of violence that had happened in his lifetime. He also points out that there is a disturbing difference between what the streets were like in the 1960s compared to those of today.
My town has a way of sheltering me; it’s relative uniformity and low crime rates represent a different society than what appears in the media. But I read the news; I assumed I knew what the rest of the world was like. In reality, I had a muted perception of people’s lives in other places. It’s as if I were exempt from the effects of the violence and evils happening
It is imperative that one must understand that I began experiencing brutality at a very young age. When I was only four years young, the Klu Klux Klan burned down my family’s home in Nebraska, causing all of us to move to Michigan. Ironically enough, the same thing happened once again in our new home prompting my family and I to move once more. Despite those terrible events, I was still very
Morocco is rich in mineral deposits and the third largest phosphate rock producers. Morocco has vast reserves of phosphate rocks, copper, cobalt, anthracite coal, silver, gold, iron ore, zinc, manganese etc. The quality of water in the areas surrounding mining sites is compromised during and after the mining with harmful agents such as Arsenic (As), Lead (Pb), Zinc(Zn) etc.Due to this water pollution and the fact that water resources are limited, a large number of people and livestock in villages close to the mining sites are affected with serious life threatening diseases. In such areas thirty percent of the wastewater that is untreated is discharged directly into natural water bodies. As an example, the Sebou basin that constitutes
Many people say that they “live in a state of terror even when they sleep.” Even though many people are terrified and worn down and scared for their life every day, there are still people who can not leave the city because it is home to
Crime is inevitable in the free country we live in. If the world was a perfect place, we would not have to debate issues like this. I will use Washington D.C as an example. In 1976, Washington D.C enacted a ban that prevented citizens from being able to carry firearms, only police officers could carry
In today’s society, we regard the crime as a number one social problem facing us. The level of crime can be helpful to understand the sense of well-being of a society. Many people believe crime occurs differently in each society based on its citizen’s conditions of living. Income inequality is one factor related to quality of life and higher rates of crimes. Economic struggle and poverty may lead to other problems such as drug abuse, dissolution of family bonds, and even crimes. When communities with higher economic problems don’t have access to enough resources to educate their youth, they cannot fight the social disorganization. People living in poverty are disadvantaged and cannot sustain their basic needs and therefore, they tend to commit violent crimes in order to make money to sustain these needs. Since they do not have any educational
The theories of situational crime prevention as well as routine activity imply a series of opportunities available to criminals which could have been prevented if the victim had behaved in a different way (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). There are several offenses committed daily where some level of fault falls upon the victim. The situational crime prevention theory lists a reduction of opportunities as well as increased risks for being apprehended as way of reducing crime rates. A study conducted on situational crime prevention did prove the theory to be effective in several cases, it should be noted that it was not completely fail proof (Clarke, 1997). This study utilized deliberate acts of prevention to reduce crime, including surveillance, foot patrols,
People live their lives each day with the same routines and do not realize that some of the things they do could make them vulnerable to criminal activity. I even put myself at a high risk of being victimized without even knowing it. Depending on hotspots and a person’s lifestyle it could heighten the chances of being a victim of a crime. In order to gain a better understanding of being victimized, a person must accept that crime is random and can happen to anyone regardless of the actions taken to prevent being
The majority of the crime comes because of an increase in tourists which attract for the opportunity to have more crime against the tourists. (Hjelmeland 1)
Crime in this country is an everyday thing. Some people believe that crime is unnecessary. That people do it out of ignorance and that it really can be prevented. Honestly, since we live in a country where there is poverty, people living in the streets, or with people barely getting by, there will always be crime. Whether the crime is robbing food, money, or even hurting the people you love, your family. You will soon read about how being a criminal starts or even stops, where it begins, with whom it begins with and why crime seems to be the only way out sometimes for the poor.
The focus of this paper will be based upon different crime prevention strategies implemented by members of the communities, local and government authorities.
Crime exists everywhere in the world – in rural and urban areas in many countries, in the East and West, and among all types of people. This has led many government officials, especially those in urban areas, to focus largely on the reduction of crime among their respective constituencies and has led others to speculate on the factors that influence the amount of crime and how those factors can be controlled. Crime has been around since man and there is no doubt that it will continue to be around, until there is an existence of a perfect world. But for now, we
Many factors generate crime. That ‘inner morality’ necessary to resist the temptation to rape, rob, or kill weakens in an environment of broken homes, systemic poverty, ethical relativism, religious decline. Poverty ’causes’ crime in general in the same way that pornography causes sex crimes and television violence causes violence by children: it is a predispositive condition. If the family life could be strengthened, raise the living standard, instill character values this could have an impact on lowering the crime rate.