A Comparison of Crime Rates in Different Areas

A Comparison of Crime Rates in Different Areas

I have gathered a great deal of information, conducted surveys and

questionnaires, completed statistical tests and created illustrated

maps to help me establish whether crime is higher in an inner city

area like Spinney Hill when compared to a suburban area like Knighton.

At the very start of this project I created an aim. This aim provided

a starting point to this project and thus a goal to achieve. In my

opinion I believe that I have achieved this aim as I have collected a

substantial amount of evidence to aid me in approving or disproving my

main hypothesis.

This coursework was centred on my main hypothesis which I was to test

to see whether it was an accurate or inaccurate statement.

Main hypothesis: “As an inner city area Spinney Hill will have a

higher crime rate than the Suburb of Knighton”

In order to test this main hypothesis I created five sub-hypotheses to

analyse and see whether they were true and thus provide further

evidence and support that the above main hypothesis was correct or

incorrect. These sub-hypotheses were as follows:

1- Fear of crime will be higher in Spinney Hill

2- Security measures will be lower in Knighton

3- Unemployment breeds crime in Spinney Hill

4- Spinney Hill has a higher population so thus a higher crime rate.

5- Environmental quality will be higher in Knighton

My first hypothesis was carried out by conducting a fear of crime

questionnaire in both wards. I gathered a great deal of information

from this questionnaire to help me determine whether an inner city

area like Spinney Hill has a higher crime rate than a suburb li...

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...naccurate and some of the statistical methods I used were a bit vague

in producing a firm conclusion. To overcome this problem I feel that I

could have made some improvements while carrying out my

investigations. While conducting my questionnaires and surveys I only

asked 10 residents from each ward. To make the data I collected from

these questionnaires and surveys more accurate and reliable I could

question more than 10 residents from each ward. This may give me a

better representation of the ward as a whole by providing me with more

data to analyse.

Overall I feel that this investigation was a success as I was able to

utilise data from my primary and secondary research efficiently and

resourcefully and thus deduce that my main hypothesis of inner city

areas having higher crime rates than suburban areas is correct.