WEEK 2 JOURNAL CRJ 512

Week 2 Journal

The article “Is It Important to Examine Crime Trends at a Local ‘Micro’ Level?: A Longitudinal Analysis of Street to Street Variability in Crime Trajectories” discusses the impact of criminal proceedings on crime victims as secondary victimization (Groff, Weisburd, & Yang, 2010). After reflecting on the article, choose two criminological theories, and use them to explain why the crime trends are at their current rates and how any of the major components of the classical school of crime causation can address the aforementioned crime trends.

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