Criminal families come in all shapes and sizes. From organised crime syndicates to uneducated, poor families where children learn their trade almost at their mother’s knee. Often circumstance and poverty can set the ball rolling but wealthy families can be…
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Suburbia did not exist before the 20th century because most Americans lived in agrarian communities. At the turn of century, cities became the norm in many areas of America, with the rise of industrialization. American citizens, though, hated the congestion,…
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Values are linked to crime in the sense that values are nothing more than society’s judgment of what is “good” and what is “evil.” Whoever violates society’s values is punished in some way. If that violation is considered egregiously harmful…
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A strip mall (often called a shopping plaza or mini mall) is basically an open-area shopping centre with stores arranged in a row. There is a sidewalk at the front of these. Strip malls are developed as a unit and…
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A myriad of people have the misconception that living in the suburbs is much cheaper than living in the city. The cost of houses tends to be much lower, so the assumption that they will save heaps of money is increased….
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Brenda Wilson (actress Emma Wray) and her on-screen sister Pamela (played by actress Liza Tarbuck, daughter of legendary Liverpudlian stand up comic Jimmy Tarbuck) introduced me into people watching in 1987 as I watched the aptly named UK sit com…
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With once in a lifetime storms happening every other year and abnormal weather conditions occurring in all parts of the world, more and more people are becoming concerned about the size of their ecological footprint. The environmental impacts of our…
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The US prison system is basically warehouses stuffed with what we know to be law breakers, criminals. A mixture of bad and worse intertwining with little supervision. Little funding available for programs to help in the rehabilitation of the criminals…
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Does society at large bear some responsibility for the damage and misery caused by crime? Or should we hold the individual criminal solely responsible? What does the term “responsibility” entail anyway? In attacking the problem of crime, what balance between…
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Planned communities are communities built entirely from scratch in underdeveloped areas. Rooting their structure from Ancient Greece and continuing in the Middle Ages, planned communities are carefully mapped out to ensure they are sensibly developed in order to include green…
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