Aspects Of City Life

Aspects of City Life - Crime.

Different angles can be taken with regards to crime in the city, and
further to this, the main topic can be broken down into smaller areas. I have
conducted two types of research;

Primary - Interviews etc. Secondary - Named Sources.

The question of crime and how it affects a city is perhaps best put to
those people that have either lived in a city all their lives (thus knowing what
the crime is like in the area), or to those that have moved to a city from a
town or village (therefore being able to make a comparison between the types of
crime and their severity in the two habitats).

A city, apart from having a great deal more shops, civic and
recreational amenities, and night life will also have many more people - people
that need somewhere to live, meaning vast expanses of housing estates and other
residential areas. In Sunderland's case all of the above are true, and, as with
many other cities across the country it has a very large student population.
There are two centres of higher education in Sunderland - the university, and
the college, both with large subscriptions. Although both have been established
for a while now, it was only fairly recently that the old Polytechnic achieved
university status. This has not only increased the size of the university in
terms of property but also the number of students attending it. This therefore
means that the overall size of Sunderland has increased, including the numbers
of shops, clubs, recrea...

Aspects Of City Life - Crime.

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