Crime Control Act Of 1990

The Crime Control Act of 1990 came about when population growth expanded in larger cities. With the population growing, it only made sense that more crime could and would follow with the surrounding changes. Drug abuse, violent gun acts, and fraud were a few key worries that growing cities became faced with. The Crime Control Act targeted the problems mentioned earlier, as well as several more, and because of this particular policy many more acts stemmed off of it to later be passed and followed.

Policy Formulation (What is the Policy)

A social problem of great concern to me is the growing drug abuse problem. With drug abuse being such a prominent problem in today’s society it is everywhere you look and so many families are affected by it.

The problem of growing crime rate has changed since the 1990’s in many ways. As sad as it is to admit the crime problem is the same if not worse than in the 90’s. Today we can hear about school shootings and as sad as it is, we have grown more use to it. Murder is more common today and our drug abuse problem continues to grow. In our small town of Hazard, we have all been affected by some sort of crime whether it be stealing, drugs, and recently arson to our beautiful mountains. Our society has changed and with it so has crime.

Political Analysis (What are the

Many criminologists insist that the main features of the administrations bill would have little impact. They refer to its emphasis on punishment” (p.3). Another argument mentioned in the same article (1991) was that, "Discusses the lack of interest in the recent “crime summit.” The crime summit is one more reminder that in Mr. Bush’s America domestic policy has not been denationalized. The federal government has not the money (it accounts for less than 10% of public spending and law enforcement), the inclination, or the qualified staff to craft and implement a crime policy”