Neighborhood Case Studies Samples For Students

My program of interest is the neighborhood watch program, which falls under the broad spectrum of community policing. Also referred to as the home watch, the block watch, the apartment watch or the community watch, the neighborhood watch has its roots in the year 1973 when it was first tested in the Seattle community crime prevention project (Hyde, 2012). The program is mainly concerned with active involvement of the public in safeguarding and upholding high quality of life of the residents through working in partnership with the police and other security agencies towards insuring the security and general wellbeing ...

The installation of the streetcar revolutionized 19th century urban planning in walking cities like Cleveland because they allowed the decentralization of the population. Before the streetcar, cities were laid out so that people could walk from their homes to their jobs and to shop. This made for a concentrated, dense business and residential center. When the street cars were installed it let the cities spread out so that the business could form commerce districts and people could get in and around in them from more spacious residential areas because streetcars let people ride further in ten minutes than they could ...

Abstract
Shelter is one of the basic human necessities. Provision of decent-quality and affordable housing is one challenge that various authorities have been faced with, and Sheffield is not left behind. Though she has surpassed her average annual housing needs, Sheffield is still struggling to mitigate housing problems. This research project reviews the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Sheffield’s housing and how education level affects the adoption of GIS in affordable housing initiatives. In order to achieve this objective, the current state of Sheffield’s housing is exhaustively considered. Using the boundary data from EDINA ...

- What did you learn that was beneficial to you? Be specific (i.e. give specific examples and references). Why did you find this beneficial? How will you apply what you have learned to your personal lifestyle?

In this class I have learned that eating healthy does not necessarily mean consuming less calories, skipping specific food groups, or skipping whole meals; but rather, eating healthy means consuming all types of foods in a balanced way. What surprised me most was that healthy eating actually means consuming many calories, but they have to be beneficial; they cannot be so called “empty calories.” Foods that are considered high in calories but still healthy are dried fruits and avocados. Cereal is a good breakfast option because of the high percentage of fiber and calcium. While consuming many healthy calories is ...

Question 1

According to Conser, Paynich, and Gingerich (2013), Community Oriented Policing is described as the dynamic, decentralized approach aimed at reducing crime, fear, and crime disorders by ensuring the involvement of the same officer in a particular community for a long time. The police are always expected to maintain a good relationship with the community hence making a reality the historical tradition that renders the police the same as the public and vice versa. The Community Oriented Policing does not work alone but partners with the neighborhood, business associations, schools, and families that are able and willing to deal with ...

The Parole Board

Ethical Situation
The pressure on releasing inmates into community sentences is evident. The Governor’s fears are not implausible. However, releasing recidivism-prone inmates will increase the burden on the society and reduce their safety dramatically. Despite spending almost a trillion dollars on correctional facilities, the prisons are overflowing. A vast majority of these inmates are serving sentences for drug related charges. They will definitely get back to their former livelihoods the moment they step out of prison.
However, retaining them in prison under inhumane conditions is a violation of human rights. Since the US has the largest prison population ...

Neighbor Works, Cleveland, Ohio. Neighbor works America also known as Neighborhood Reinvestment Cooperation started as Neighborhood Housing Services of Pittsburgh. Its inception is believed to be in the year 1968 when a central north side resident of Pittsburgh Dorothy Mae started campaigning for better housing in the neighborhood. It is a non-profit organization that was congressionally charted during 1978 to provide housing services and programs in the state cities. The organization has a branch in Cleveland. It has been providing excellent services and programs for more than thirty-seven years to the residents of northeast Ohio. It is made up of more than ...

NEIGHBORHOOD/COMMUNITY

Physical environmental safety within the St Albans Queens community lies in the infrastructure. There are well constructed streets with lights in close proximity to each other for vehicles and pedestrians to move along roadways and pavements safely. Also they have been constructed wide enough allowing space for two way vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The building code enforcement department through frequent inspections ensures that buildings are safe for residents to live in. Water and sewage standards are maintained, license for eating houses and business are issued prior to operations, landlords affect repairs to apartment complexes; garbage disposal services are efficient ...

Introduction

Social learning theory is a comprehensive theory that encompasses interrelated concepts about human behavior. The first to develop this theory is the American psychologist, Albert Bandura, in the 1960s. Bandura theorized that people learn behavior through observation, which he proved through his ‘Bobo doll’ experiment. Social learning theorists believe that human behavior is not just a product of the ‘cause and effect’ phenomenon as what behaviorism suggests, but rather, human beings processes information from the environment and learns their behavior over time. According to Bandura, man is a thinking creature; that he is not helpless to the psychological and ...

- Compare and contrast fixed-price contracts and cost-reimbursement contracts
Fixed price and cost reimbursement is two methodologies for making contracts for administration work. With the fixed price system, the agreement and contracting gathering consent to a fixed cost toward the begin on the project that does not change.

Benefits and drawbacks of fixed price contracts

With government occupations, organizations are normally needed to submit offers in specific ways, which regularly command an altered cost for the whole project. Organizations giving administrations to private organizations and shoppers would take a gander at the qualities and shortcomings of fixed price contracts in respect to different alternatives. Buyers progressively lean ...

Executive Summary

Wal-Mart has announced its plans to seek approval from the planning commission of Pullman to build a new store. Wal-Mart has maintained that they strive to establish a Store of the Community, with the intention of ensuring that the entire project benefits the local community by creating more than 400 new jobs, creating new tax revenue and acting as a catalyst for economic development. Despite these benefits to the local community, owners of small businesses nearby, and town residents and residents in nearby towns have expressed their discontent by Wal-Mart opening a new store in Pullman. The aim of this memo is to ...

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Introduction

The safety and wellbeing of children has been a concern worldwide. Different strategies and approaches initiated and implemented by various nations and institutions yielded results that were below the expectations. This forced the stakeholders in children affairs to rethink on the avenues they previously employed. For instance, in 1990 the United States Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect recommended for the change of the country’s child protection system after observing it did very little to assure the children their welfare in the contemporary society. Kimbrough-Melton and Campbell (2008) found that,
“The failure of the child ...

Any daycare with a preschool curriculum that has been in existence for over 20 years is going to experience changes throughout time. The center of review is located in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City. There are no significant historical foundations for the center and there are no specific issues of the time to address. The center opened as a needed place to provide childcare for working parents in the community.
Some of the social and cultural changes that have affected the center have been the population of the neighborhood. Although the location of the center has not changed, the neighborhood ...

Background

Successful modern business marketing lays emphasis on meeting the needs of the customers. This focus is a departure in the opposite direction from the traditional business whose major concern was selling its products or services. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one way of meeting not only the direct customers’ desires but also the needs and expectations of all the stakeholders of a business (Ortenblad 2016). Unethical profiteering practices of large companies and customer awareness due to free flow of information have forced many companies to make CSR a key strategic focus in their conduct of business. Besides enabling a ...

Community bank is an independent, small and locally-owned commercial bank, which operates and obtains its funds solely from the community, where it is based.
Community banks focus on providing traditional banking, derive deposits locally and mostly make loans to local businesses. It is widely known that today community banks provide most of the loans to our nation's small businesses and are an important financial resource to small cities. Because of that and because of the fact that they have knowledge of their local community and their customers, they are called “relationship” banks. They base their credit and loan decisions ...

Gun violence in the United States has become quite a huge problem as various crimes related to guns were at their peak during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Gun violence in the United States mostly impacted young adolescents as well as juveniles whereby the African-American males are the ones with the highest victimization rate than any other racial or gender group. During that period and also up to now in some cases, a young African-American teenage boy was more likely to die of a gunshot wound rather than from all causes of death. Due to the ...

Scenario

A woman cried for help but not even a single soul came out of their comfort chambers to help her out until when the police siren was heard from afar. Immediately the neighborhood was flooded by people ready to catch and punish the robbers. None stirred when they heard gunshots instead they went ahead and caught the thugs and beat them up until they were half dead.
Human beings receptivity to emergency depends on numbers. A number of people will most likely rescue a victim than when a single person is left to witness the emergence.

Observation

People respect the ...

Walmart Stores, Inc. d/b/a Walmart started its operations in 1962 when it opened its first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. Currently, the company has grown into the position of being the largest retailer in the world and the third largest in terms of the number of employees . The company is now a multi-national giant with operations in 28 countries under 65 banners employing over 2.2 million associates . This essay will perform a SWOT, PEST and financial analysis of Walmart in the following sections.

SWOT Analysis

Strengths
Being the largest retailer in the world, Walmart enjoys significant advantages over the competition like strong ...

Introduction

Business organizations today are committed to form a business strategy that will eventually bring them success through competitive advantage and appropriate marketing strategy. The question arises as to how many business organizations have topped the game by adopting such a strategy? The answer is obvious as not many businesses tend to succeed in topping the industry with the help of business strategy based on competitive advantage, supply chain system, and other product related systems. This implies that the business are making mistake in formulating their business strategy somewhere, which does not let them reap the benefits of a potentially ...

Using New York State Penal Law definitions, define and explain the differences between burglary and robbery

Robbery according to the New York law is defined as being equivalent to larceny which is the unlawful taking or the forcible stealing of property. Any crime committed when a person in the course of committing a larceny uses or threatens the direct use of physical force on another person with the intent to compel the owner of the property to at in a way that aids the commission of the larceny, to overcome any resistance to retain the property after taking it, to prevent resistance when taking the property or to compel the owner of the property to deliver it. According ...

Issues in Psychology: Hypothetical Case Study in Two-Stage Life Development

Abstract
The psychological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral crisis of traumatic interruptions during developmental periods in counseling and therapy, calls for the use of mental health support, assessments, and interventions. The present hypothetical case study seeks to direct (a) an explanation of two consecutive stages of mental development post-9/11 trauma for a male adolescent from 14 years of age to 28 years of age, (b) discuss overview of background of the case and situation, (c) scan the description, impact, and implication of client problem with inclusion of current state, (d) use of theories to compile the hypothetical case study from a perspective of a ...

The Kokako (Callaeas cinereus) is an imperiled timberland feathered creature which is endemic to New Zealand. It is slate-light black with wattles and a dark veil. It is one of three types of New Zealand Wattlebird, the other two being the close undermined Tieke (saddleback) and the wiped out Huia. Beforehand far reaching, Kokako populaces all around New Zealand have been wrecked by the predations of mammalian obtrusive species, for example, possums, stoats, felines and rats and their reach has contracted essentially. There are two sub-types of Kokako, North Island and South Island, in spite of the fact that the ...

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In keeping a journal for a 24-hour period of where I was getting my information, I found that for the majority of it, I either logged onto CNN.com, my preferred news source, or clicked on links in my newsfeed of my Facebook profile. I noticed that with CNN, I tended to only skim the headlines to get a general idea of what was happening in the world. When I am on the Internet, I was never really fully engaged in the information I was receiving, as when I was watching the news on TV. I tended to have on average about 8 ...

Introduction

Crime prevention typically brings to people’s minds various programs that are divorced from the formal criminal justice system. Most of them are heavily reliant on the various efforts of citizenry. This book highly focuses on the physical design as a component of crime prevention. Then again it focuses on crime prevention in terms of environmental design, which is one, of the most discussed crime prevention approach for the past four decades. The idea behind this approach is making crime difficulty for criminals to commit. It also assists residents in feeling extra secure in their surroundings as well as residences. ...

In the 21st century, the entire world has grown to be an arena of criminal activities. The community we live in has become too violent, and in extreme occasions, criminals have absolutely controlled the streets. Arguably, crime and criminal activities affect the community negatively in various aspects, which include economic, social and political. Hence, it is crucial to reestablish the law enforcing agencies and develop effective models and strategies to control and prevent crime. Community policing is one of the effective strategy used in most cities today. In this case, it is based on community-police coordination; the police and ...

My Community

Raleigh became a state in 1792 being an administration center rather than a business center. Initially appearing to be a dull and sleepy town, Raleigh was to grow and become the capital city of North Carolina State. Currently, Raleigh stands out to be the largest municipality of the 12 municipalities of Wake County characterized by a population of over 600,000 residents; African Americans, Asian Americans, Whites and Hispanic ethnicities. Raleigh harbors a plethora of museums theaters together with recreational parks, all closely connected with its history and inhabitants.

Raleigh has undergone remarkable changes in terms of its central focus, education, business, housing and ...