What would be a good thesis statement about Urban Voilence to write about? Help Please!!!?

Answer 1

Urban violence may be a symptom of overcrowding and poverty.

Answer 2

Urban Violence: One symptom of a National Epidemic.
(The last definition applies here. See below.) You could then argue that some or all of the following are major contributors of urban violence or all symptoms of a greater failure. These are just idea's and you would have to check their accuracy. Best of luck.

a.) Greater education disadvantage with in the urban community.
b.) Lack of quality jobs for the less educated.
c.) Higher drop out rate in urban communities.
d.) greater proportion of poor.
e.) Higher incidents of prejudice.
f.) Welfare and welfare reform.
g.) Less role models or the wrong type of role models.
h.) Drugs and alcohol abuse.
i.) Broken families.
j.) Circle of violence and despair (hard to break)

ep·i·dem·ic (p-dmk) also ep·i·dem·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time: an epidemic outbreak of influenza.
2. Widely prevalent: epidemic discontent.
n.
1. An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely.
2. A rapid spread, growth, or development: an unemployment epidemic.

Answer 3

urban violence as compared to economic growth in inner-city residents.