Interesting BBC NEWS article for those who are teaching the Geography of CRIME.
It relates to the concept of GLOBALISATION.
This would be a useful context for a crime unit, and to compare the risks of young people with householders...
How much value are students carrying around with them at any point in time ?
Go back to when I was a teenager and had probably less than £1 in my pocket and no fancy electronic items....
How much value are students carrying around with them at any point in time ?
Go back to when I was a teenager and had probably less than £1 in my pocket and no fancy electronic items....
According to researchers at the University of Leicester, burglaries have dropped by more than 50 per cent since the 1980’s.
They say this is due to the fact that despite more homes having hi-tech goods, the resale value of DVD players and widescreen TVs is ”virtually nothing” due to prices being kept low by cheap labour in China.
Instead, crooks have turned to the latest must-have portable gadgets such as mobile phones and iPods which are obtained through muggings.
Criminology lecturer James Treadwell said that a DVD player costing £19.99 was “simply not worth stealing”.
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