Home Security - Safety in the Family Home

Why should the provision of securities at home be given importance? Sociologists have conducted crime studies that focus on the neighborhood and community rather than on the individual. Some of these studies deal with how a person becomes committed to a career of crime, and others try to explain differences in crime rates. The highest crime rates occur in the most deprived sections of large cities. These are the areas where it is most difficult to train children to become law-abiding citizens. Such areas have the highest rate of broken homes.

Even in many homes where both parents are present, emotional conflicts and health and financial problems affect family life. Slum areas usually have the poorest schools and the highest unemployment rates. These neighborhoods have much run-down, over-crowded housing and poor recreation facilities. For many young city-dwellers, the excitement of the streets provides the principal escape from boredom and seemingly unsolvable problems. These streets are also the scene of much vice and crime-drugs use and sale, gambling, prostitution, public drunkenness, and acts of violence. Law enforcement in the inner city is difficult, partly because too few police officers patrol the neighborhoods.

In addition, many of the people fear the police and refuse to cooperate with them. Most residents of the high-slum areas of many large cities are members of minority ethnic groups. As a result, the crime rates for such minority groups are higher than that of the majority group. The minority groups are also more likely to become the victims of crimes. In many countries, most crimes are committed by boys and young men. They are particularly likely to commit burglaries, thefts, and robberies. Many violent crimes are committed by people who were acquainted with their victims. In a high proportion of murders, for example, the killer and the victim knew each other. In fact, about a sixth of all murders committed in the United States, for example, are committed by a member of the victim's family. In numerous cases, because so many murderers know their victims, the police have a relatively easy time identifying the killer. As a result, the arrest and conviction rate for murders is high.

Police have a much harder time identifying robbers and burglars, few of whom know the victims. What should be given of higher importance in our society and communities are the safety and the security of each and every home and that each family member should be safeguarded at any cost against all kinds of crimes.

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