Urbanization and Crime: A Relational Analysis
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Urbanization, as considered from the economic aspect is good as it facilitates achievement of economies and thus promotes growth of industries and development in the economy. However, taking the social point of view urbanization encourage crimes as is evident from the fact that the rate of crime is higher in large cities and in urbanized areas as has been proved by many empirical studies. Urbanization per se is not the only cause for rising trend of crime, but, there are many other determinants alongside urbanization and closely related to it, that have a direct say in the rising trend of crimes in urbanized areas. These are unemployment, inflation and income inequality. However, these related determinants often are associated with urbanization or its consequence, so the root cause remains the process of urbanization. Very often, the question as to why there are more crimes in cities comes to mind which is promptly being answered by the fact that one can count many crime reports in cities as compared to rural area. It could be due to the fact that rural crimes are not properly reported or hyped through media due to which a common perception perpetuates that the crime rate is more in cities. In the recent past, however, many empirical studies were carried out to find out the “urbanization crime nexus” and it was found that the two are associated terms, although, the universality of that nexus is yet to be established as there are many urbanized areas where the reports of crime are too meager. In this paper, I would delineate various aspects of urbanization which in some way have contributed to the rise of crime rates in cities. In Indian context, during past few years the crime rate has increased within the sphere of urbanized areas which shall also be peeped into during the course of this paper.
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