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'If the government wants to make a serious impact on the crime problem it should concentrate resources not on tackling street crime but on violence in the family home.' Discuss.
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OPTION 1 'If the government wants to make a serious impact on the crime problem it should concentrate resources not on tackling street crime but on violence in the family home.' Discuss. The dominant representations of the crime problem within society tend to concentrate on street crime and crime statistics only show the crimes that are a threat posed to personal safety on the street. Government priorities are focused on the problem of crime on the street and all its resources are directed to tackling this problem, because of the media impact on society it is inevitable that crimes such as mugging, theft and youth deviance, to name but a few, will become top headlines whilst violence in the home is rendered unimportant or even invisible. I hope to emphasise the extent of violence in the home and to explain the implications if the government concentrate all of its resources on street...
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