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Melissa Tarrance

Final Exam

Rural Crime

January 12, 2011

1.   The Amish have  no problem with being law abiding citizens.  The laws of our country

are reflective of the Ten Commandments and speaks of rules against property and

interpersonal violence.  The Amish tend to stray away from the court system if needed

they will let some third party take care of their part, if it becomes necessary for them to

become involved.  They tend to only use attorneys for wills and deeds.  If they tried to

sue someone that would be grounds for excommunication due to the fact that would be

prideful and trying to pass judgment themselves instead of allowing God to punish thewrong doer.  Some see the Amish as a weaker, menial group of people who they don’t

understand why they live the way they do thus leaving them open to violence and hate

crimes toward them.  Most think that the Amish live in their communities and rarely have

any communication with the outside world.  Thus, leading them to believe that they have

no issues with crime.  The Amish like everyone else has crime issues, they just choose

not to report it due to it could lead to involvement in the legal system.  The Amish are

victimized through things such as harassment, intimidation and vandalism and no one

may ever know how much due to them rejecting any type of violence and using the

concept of turning the other cheek.  The police have to deal with the Amish the best way

they can, the Amish don’t want to be involved in any type of judgment being passed on

someone so they very seldom report crimes against them unless they are severe, so if 

someone outside of the Amish report a crime they tend to not want to get involved

leaving the police with little to go on.

4.   Rural hotspots are locations in a rural area where crime is a major factor.  Rural areas

have areas of extreme poverty (like urban areas) and levels of crime are higher in these

areas.  Depending on the area tourism can be a factor due to the onslaught of visitors

coming into the area thinking that the area is popular and has people with money there it

would be an easy site to commit some sort of crime in.  Urban areas are known to be high

crime areas, such as drug dealing.  This will be done in public on  a street corner, not late

at night like would happen in a rural area.  People don’t want to get caught in rural areas;

people in urban areas know that no one will report them for fear of retaliation. Police tend

to know the areas of the town they are working in that will be the most likely to have

more crimes.  They know when they get called to that area that it will be something

serious.  The police know that these areas are poor and disadvantaged.

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6.   Native Americans have a very high rate of victimization but are not as publicly reported

as other types of victimization and crime.  In Native American community’s poverty,

unemployment, alcohol and substance abuse, family dissolution, racial discrimination,

and educational deficiencies are higher than the rest of the United States.  These factorstend to increase the crime rate in these communities.  Indian communities are very under 

policed and have been for a very long time.  Even with them having a very high rate of 

crime and victimization still it is under policed.  Throughout the United States history

you can see at different times different policies were tried to control the Indians.  Today

tribal police agencies have three problematic areas.  One being political, Indian

reservations is not typically divided like states and counties, thus leaving jurisdiction

complex and confusing and limiting to government and police.  A second element would

be cultural; this is trying to bring modern, Western institutions or practices to the Indians.

A third would be ecological, Indian reservations are located in rural areas far from more

populated urban areas and contain small populations spread out over a large area.

Making them more difficult to police.