In most countries, the crime rate is often higher in urban areas than in rural areas. Why do you think that is? What can be done to reduce the crime rate?

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number of
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crime
rate
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in
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recently,
crime
rate
is often higher in urban
areas
than in rural
areas
. Today, we are going to discuss both
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of
this
issue. The first
reason
is the
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population in central
areas
. The economy in these
areas
is usually more
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development
than in rural
ares
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areas
,
therefore
, it can
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attract
attack
numerous people from different nations and positions.
Consequently
, these are
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areas
with many
type
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of people at any knowledge level. It will be the
reason
for many
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rising. Meanwhile, in rural
areas
, the population are mostly native with the total
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population
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very small, and they usually have close relationships with each other.
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, the chance to occur
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default
events
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is difficult to
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.
Secondly
, crimes usually tend to attack rich families
that
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is very popular in big cities and not popular in rural
areas
.
Therefore
,
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thier
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their
purposes in central
areas
.
That is
the
reason
why big cities
attrack
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attract
more
crime
. Because of these above issues, we need to have methods to reduce the
crime
rate
.
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first method, raising the knowledge of everyone through
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media
by spreading out the adverse effects of
crime
to make them understand
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and stay far away from them. Another method is
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the law
is
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more enforcement in central communities that can prevent or reduce the
crime
rate
in big
cites
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cities
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. In conclusion, there are numerous
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to make
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crime
rate
in central cities usually higher than in rural
ares
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areas
. We should
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these
fundermental
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fundamental
steps to reduce these negative
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.
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  • unemployment
  • anonymity
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  • economic desperation
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  • community programs
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  • recreational programs
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