Causes of Crime

Assess the main causes of crime over time.
Explain how poverty, famine, and warfare contributed to crime in the medieval era.
Analyze the growth of economic pressures in the sixteenth century and their impact on crime levels.
Evaluate the effect of religious change on crime during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Explain how the pressures of industrialisation and urbanisation drove crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Analyze twentieth-century pressures causing crime, including changing technology, trends towards violent crime, and anti-social behaviour.

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