Crime and violence

How does crime and violence affect the behavior of students in

a rural high school in wastern Jamaica.

I choose this problem because I want to know how crime and

violence affects our citizens in Jamaica. There is an community
that I know where there is a lot of crime and violence
happening. Has the clock strikes 6:00 pm all shops has to be
close by 7:00 pm because people always trying to steel and
rube their goods from them. The community is lociated in
hanover the name of the community is j town their or about 50
people living in that community or more and about 70-100
house’s. the community has a football fieid and a beach for the
children.

The method that is selected is questionnairs. The question are

set out an a from with a number of particular questions who
people will willing t5o answer.

Questionnaire questions
 1. What age group or you in ?

2.What gender or you ?

3.What is the level of crime and violence in your community ?

4.What is the death rate in your community?

5.What is your occupation?

6.In what way does crime and violence affects you?

7.What advice would you give to you government to solve

crime and violence in your community?

8.How long have has crime and violence have been going on in
your community?
9. Do you thing crime and violence will ever end in your
community?
10.How often does crime and violence occur in your
community?

11.Have you and your family have ever thougth about leaving
your community?

12.Have you ever thougth of something is going to happen to

your children when sending them off to school?

13.If thewre is one thing you could do to stop or make it less

what would it be?

14.How much of an influence do crime and violence have on

your children?

15.Have crime and violence have reach reach to another level

in your community?
 parents will be fined a small fee of $125.00 tt. Hopefully, when
parents do find out, they will try their best to keep them in side
before curfew hours. • Gang members/ leaders should try to
influence younger teenagers not to joining gangs therefore, it
can only lead to a life of jail or death. This implements an
earlier decision given to the teenagers who has thought about
joining a gang, a future look at themselves from an adult
prisoner who has experienced the difficulties, hopefully, this
can change their minds. • The Government should enforce
homes for young misbehaving adults, a program by which can
help to assist the Trade union, which means a larger scale of
employment, also keeps the young adults away from crime •
Groups and activates to offer assistance to young adult to stay
away from crime such as playing sport, musical instruments and
religious get together.
PROCEDURES USED TO COLLECT DATA This following task was
quite difficult trying to collect all of the answered survey
question from peers with in my community, I ran into a
technical difficulty problem with the questioner but it was
quickly resolved. The survey only comprised of a maximum of
15 questions, they were mostly “yes” or “no” questions, except
for 1, 3, 7, 8,9,10,11,14 and 15 these were questions that
needed to be answered truthfully. When collecting the data, I
did it accordingly to age groups because I was sure I wont be
able to get every individual feed back. I completed this task in
groups of 5. Each group had 13 individuals who received the
survey. The majority of people who completed this survey were
mostly between the age groups of 13 to 50. I had no problems
with explaining the questionnaire to each group. In total, only
65 peers completed this survey in my area, out of a population
of 1300

: Pie chart shows the cause of death in Santa Cruz. Overall 65%
in death in Santa Cruz is cause by Gang-affiliated, whiles 12% is
cause by stray bullet and 24% of death is unknown. CAUSE OF
DEATH PERCENTAGES Gang-Affiliated Stray Bullet Police
Execution Unknown 65% 12% 0% 24% Reason For Deaths
Pertaining To Crime In Santa Cruz Gang affiliated Stray bullet
Police execution Unknown

Shows a bar graph with the overall amount of people who

answered the yes or no to questioner #9 Out of 65 peers who
completed the questioner, 68% truthfully admitted to
committing a crime, whiles 32% said they never had committed
a crime but in my beliefs I believe their lying. Have committed
a crime Has not committed a crime Percentage 45 20
68% 32% 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 No Yes Have
Committed A Crime

PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS Majority 75% of people has

lived in j town for over 10 years, Unlike the other 5% that
recently moved to j town because of new home development.
65% of death is cause buy gang affiliation in j town, 12% has
dies from a stray bullet whiles 24% has reported of unknown
deaths Truthfully peers from j town tried their best to answer
this last question honestly, 68% has admitted to committing a
crime whether it was stealing, drugs or trafficking they
admitted. 32% claimed they have never, not once committed a
crime.