sociological causes

• Causes of crime in Scotland

  • Geographical location
  • Social exclusion
  • Lack of positive role models
  • Drugs and alcohol
• Geographical location


  Where the area can influence the likelihood of committing a crime. For example, areas with higher poverty rates compared to more affluent areas tend to have higher crime rates.
• Social exclusion


  Where someone is unable to fully participate in normal society, often due to lack of money, jobs or anger at the community.
• Social exclusion


  • Prisoners' education trust show 18% of boys in custody have been excluded from school
• Lack of positive role models


  Where children from broken families grow up with no male role model, which can then lead them to look up to gang members or siblings involved in crime.
• Lack of positive role models


  • In 2019, England had estimations of 27,000 children being gang members
• Drugs and alcohol


  Where substances which impair judgement and lower people's inhibitions, leading them to do things they wouldn't normally.
• Drugs and alcohol


  • Both of young offenders in Scotland were drunk at the time of their offence