RESEARCHING THE EFFECTS OF CRIME ON COMMUNITIES

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You will first need to select a community with high or increasing levels of crime.

Select three peer-reviewed journal articles related to crime in your selected community to use for this Assessment.

In your analysis, explain the following:

1. In 2–3 pages total:

· Identify the research question in each article.

· Provide an overview of the independent and dependent variables.

· Explain the effects of your selected crime on the community studied.

· Explain how the research findings compare to the existing body of knowledge. (Look in the discussion section of the articles.)

Sample solution

Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

Sample Solution

· Discuss how the research could inform a crime prevention program for your selected community.

For this assignment, I chose to analyze crime in the city of Detroit, Michigan. The three peer-reviewed journal articles I used are “Social Cohesion and Perceived Neighborhood Safety” by Neergaard et al. (2018), “The Effects of Crime on Public Intentions Toward Homeownership” by Osterman (2019), and “Neighborhood Contextual Influences on Urban Youth Involvement in Violence” by Chaffin et al. (2017).

Sample Solution

· Discuss how the research could inform a crime prevention program for your selected community.

For this assignment, I chose to analyze crime in the city of Detroit, Michigan. The three peer-reviewed journal articles I used are “Social Cohesion and Perceived Neighborhood Safety” by Neergaard et al. (2018), “The Effects of Crime on Public Intentions Toward Homeownership” by Osterman (2019), and “Neighborhood Contextual Influences on Urban Youth Involvement in Violence” by Chaffin et al. (2017).

Neergaard et al’s article examines the relationship between social cohesion and perceived neighborhood safety using data from a survey conducted among 1,593 adults living in Detroit neighborhoods with varying levels of criminal activity. The independent variables were individual attitudes towards their local community while the dependent variable was perceived safety within their neighborhood overall.

Based on their results, they concluded that individuals who had positive perceptions of their community tended to feel safer than those who did not – even when living in neighborhoods with high levels of crime or poverty.

Osterman’s study focuses on how different types of crimes influence public intentions toward homeownership within urban settings such as Detroit to determine if certain types of crimes have stronger effects than others. This article found that violent crimes had a greater dampening effect on public intentions toward homeownership while property related offenses had less significant impacts across various demographic groups.

Lastly, Chaffin et al.’s article looks at how various aspects of an individual’s neighborhood context can lead to increased involvement with violence among adolescents living in urban areas like Detroit through analyzing data from 496 youth aged 11-18 years old taken from five schools located around the city.

The findings revealed that youths who lived in more disadvantaged neighborhoods which lacked recreational facilities and social resources were more likely to engage in violent activities compared to those living elsewhere.
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