Alley-Gating Case Study

One strength to alley-gating would be that it could reduce property vulnerability and deter potentials offenders. Strength to the methodological theory is that it not only formulate and investigate crime, it also examines place as a variable and also constructs both activity space and awareness space of a location where offenders may target. Analyst belief that using unique data on residential histories among commercial robbers may generate new empirical evidence when it comes to spatial behavior of offenders and their criminal patterns (Paynich & Hill, 2014). In my opinion, neighborhood policing may play a major part in the effectiveness of the methodological theory and its success.

One weakness in the alley-gating would be that the gates may not be the actual place where the offender commit the crime, in other words, terraced housing may not be vulnerable to burglary when the offender can gain access from the back of the location (Paynich & Hill, 2014). According to this study, it stated that another weakness was that although residents were satisfied with the results through the use of focus groups and it lacked the situational displacement of the burglary attempts, and the alley-gates were not placed in hot spot areas (Paynich &

I do believe that in lower income cities where criminal activity is more visible, it is up to our law makers to utilize more patrolling to maybe cut down on the crime activity. I also believe that the location where a person lives has a lot to do with crime activity. I can use for example, I live in a community where there is little to no crime reported verses more lower level neighborhoods, that are called “the other side of town” are high in drug usage, selling and more violent criminal acts.

Reference

Paynich, R., & Hill, B. (2014). Fundamentals of crime mapping (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones &