Abstract This sixteen-page paper looks at the idea of crime and re-offending in the United Kingdom and how the government along with certain agencies have tried to reduce this crime increase. Furthermore the paper discuss the use of computer in the probation service and software that is designed to help reduce the rate of re-offenders, and how when taken into consideration with behavioural problems and homelessness the crime rates increase mainly by re-offenders. The paper also looks at the think first programme and how its failure to provide the necessary work and training for those out in the community falls short through and a lack in sheltered accomadation.
Abstract This paper looks at how sociologists have noted a dramatic decrease in religious activity within established Trinitarian churches and how affiliation to new religious movements has risen just as considerably. It examines how the actual concept of new religious movements was developed because sociologists found the terms "sect" and "cult" inadequate to describe these new religious groups, as the organisational structures, type of membership and leadership, affinities with traditional mainstream religions and attitude to wider society of these organisations were much too different. It also explores the concept of the three kinds of new religious movements as defines by sociologists, world rejecting, world accommodating and world affirming.
From the Paper "Other sociologists have argued that the rapid growth in new religious movements is not a response to social deprivation but to secularisation. It is argued that since the decline in the importance of the established religions and Trinitarian churches people seek alternative belief systems to explain the world and its difficulties after feeling disillusioned by institutionalised religion. Sociologists argue that many modern religious movements are a response to anxieties created by the dominance of scientific rationalism, materialism and the resulting secularisation of society."
