Predatory Violations. The Researchers Believe

¶ … predatory violations. The researchers believe that criminal activities are directly linked to ones everyday life. The study deals directly with direct contact predatory violations. The researchers want to support the idea that if there is a change in motivation, the availability of a suitable target(s), and whether there are any other factors that guard against the violation happening in the first place. Overall, the researchers want to confirm that a shift in activity will cause a direct change in number of criminal events.

One question addressed in the writing is whether a change in daily routines will affect the rates of direct contact predatory crime. This is further affirmed on page 53 where researchers report that prospective victims are beginning to safeguard themselves against prospective predators. The main thesis is that the increase in reported crime in 1960 was linked to changes in the routine activity structure of society.

Data regarding criminal rates in relationship to family and non-family activities is utilized in the current writing. Reports indicate that rates are lower at or near home than activities that are further away and/or with non-familiar individuals. Furthermore, victimization occurs more when an individual is alone rather than in groups of two or more. (Cohen & Felson, p.56)

The main conclusions that are gained from the data are that there is a definite relationship between household activities and criminal events. Therefore one may state that routine activities due have a direct relationship to the amount of criminal events that occur.

The reader needs to understand that the researchers are simply supporting data that already exists. By offering information that gives the reader, a source to see that there is in fact a direct relationship between what an individual does in or out of the home and the susceptibility to being victimized.

For the date of the writing not much is missing, however it would be nice to have current information that supports that this is in fact a hypothesis that is proven through longevity of the information provided. Otherwise, not much appears to be missing, however it would be nice to see statistics regarding at work or offices.

If one is to accept the authors reasoning then one will understand that a shift in daily activities will have a positive or negative effect on the chances of victimization. Therefore, the reader is given an opportunity to change their activities in an attempt to affect their chances of being victimized.

In my opinion, the authors (Cohen & Felson) are supported through the information gathered in the reading. On the other hand, I do think that more information could have been given regarding what actual activities were related with what victimizations. Although statistically the writing was through it would have been nice to have more examples and explanations.

The author wants to give insight into the ideals behind pleasure and pain. The writing states that individuals will gravitate towards things, events etc. that bring about pleasure more than they will an event etc. that will cause pain. The intent of the writing is to give further insight into the voyage of men/women toward these things that are most pleasurable, and shying away from things that are know and evident to cause pain.

A question that is addressed that affects the hypothesis, are there levels of pleasure when it becomes painful and therefore one shy away from it. Questions also addressed are what factors play a role in what one deems as pleasurable and painful.

Information given that help to support the writing is the eight points that the writing refers. The writer states that there are seven things to consider when looking at pleasure: the intensity, the duration, the certainty, or uncertainty, convenience, or inaccessibility, productiveness, its purity, and the number of people that it extends.(Bentham, p.106)

The main conclusions that are gained from the reading are that people will seek pleasure and they will use a couple of common things to define that pleasure. Pain is something that is to be avoided and that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Another conclusion is that no matter age, sex, ethnicity; pleasure is something that we all seek just possibly in differing amounts.

The reader needs to look beyond the vocabulary of the text to really understand and be able to interpret what the writer is attempting to explain and share with his audience. One should understand that there are some basic points that are commonplace in regards to pleasure and individuals seeking that pleasure.

More clarity on the driving forces behind the need or want for pleasure is missing. Even though the writing expresses the various facets behind what comes together to make us want to look for pleasure, there is very little to say what makes one need pleasure, that could help to give more credibility to the writing.

If we are to accept the writers reasoning we will be able to infer that pleasure has many facets and that it is in fact possible to have too much pleasure to the point that it causes one pain. This can help a person realize that everything pleasurable may be okay as long as moderation is used. However, it is only okay if it does not cause harm to anyone else or at the expensive of another person.

The reading was informative, however I think more nonprofessionals' terms could have helped the writer to reach a broader base of readers. I think the author was correct as to the search for pleasure and the facets that affect that search. I also agree that if someone understands the basic premises underlying to pleasure one can have a better understanding of what role it plays in their lives.

The writer wants to discuss instinctually how man does not want to be bound by the laws of the rest of humankind, as well as how we seek to avoid punishment at all cost. The writer also discusses how punishment is useless, and how the different extremes of punishment affect people's reactions.

The questions that are addressed in the writing address how efficient punishment is. The writer discusses death in one section of the writing explaining how ones death is without purpose, that the death does not cause the effect that society is trying to evoke through sentencing someone to death. (Beccaria)

Information is given throughout the writing that discusses current and previous events and laws that date back to the Romans and how they continue to be ineffective, in essence showing that for centuries people have been sentenced to death etc. And it continues to have very little effect on others committing crimes.