Crime in Charlotte-Meklenberg

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This paper looks at the pattern in which the burglaries in the Charlotte-Meklenberg community are being committed and considers whether the burglaries can be explained in terms of the rational theory. The paper
describes the rational theory as a person acting within constraints, based on the information given about the conditions they are in, in order to achieve what they want. The paper concludes that the crimes are caused by the social behavior of teens and thus the crime is the result of a social problem, which cannot be addressed through rational theories but rather by social action theories.

From the Paper:

"He admits that over the month preceding, detectives saw a pattern to the kinds of burglaries being perpetrated and they were pursuing leads. Officers made an arrest in one case that fit the pattern of recent burglaries and were interviewing the suspect to see if the burglaries were related. In one day, in the North of Mecklenburg County, four homes were broken into. All of them had similar methodology to other burglaries occurring earlier that month in the South. But the same kind of break-ins has been reported in all the other parts of the city, as well."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept. (2008). Recent spike in home break-ins: suspects & Methods. Crime In Charlotte, NC. Retrieved January 26, 2008 from http://www.crimeincharlotte.com/.
• Homans, G. (1961). Social Behaviour: Its Elementary Forms. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Scott, John. (2000). Rational Choice Theory. Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of The Present, Boston: Sage Publications.

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