Prior to beginning our research of vandalism we began discussing our own definition of vandalism and what it meant to us. The following is what we came up with for our own description of vandalism. Vandalism is the act in which one purposefully commits an act in which they either destroy, trash, wreck, ruin, or render unusable a possession in which they are not the rifle owner of. This would also consist of acts such as graffiti. Now let's see our definition compared to that of other legitimate sources.
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'Understanding of Vandalism and Its Effects'
Dictionary.com - Willful or malicious destruction of public or private property.
Old Dictionary - intentional destruction or damage to property
Webster's Dictionary - Destruction or spoiling of what should be preserved.
If you compare our explanation of the word vandalism to these other you can see the relation and how these are nearly the same meanings in different terminology.
To achieve the most random of results from our examination we handed out exactly forty-eight surveys. We did this so that there were twelve per grade and precisely twenty-four male and an equal amount of females receiving our questionnaire.
An additional unanticipated piece of information that we came across was the fact that just 10% of the people felt some sort of regret or remorse for their wrong doings. This is somewhat shocking taking into consideration that we found 28% have admitted to being caught. This means that some people still aren't bothered by the actuality that they have been caught and this isn't preventing them from committing such crimes again. This would lead one to believe that people aren't taking the punishments seriously enough, which is most likely for the reason that they aren't severe enough. If the penalty for vandalizing were more harsh perhaps people would bear in mind more the consequences and cease in performing these felonies.
This next graph will illustrate to us the relation in how males and females connect with each other in vandalism.
Just by looking at this bar graph you can instantly see that with only a small percentage separating the two, males and females are similar in the amount that vandalize.
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Of the few people who had never vandalized, also claim to have never considered vandalizing before. Whether these people are being completely honest is for anyone to speculate but assuming they are this is very intriguing. Every single person also states (roughly paraphrased) that they don't vandalize for the reason that it is simply wrong to do. One other captivating detail was that all every one who didn't vandalize had had something of theirs vandalized whereas just 70% of people who had vandalized have had there stuff vandalized before, which is still a very large and significant figure considering that is a large number of people, but it does not compare to the 100% of non-vandalizers.
