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Little Red Cap and Criminal Acts; Yes or No? ‘Yes’
The population of the United States of America is made up a many different age groups. It is made up of young people, old people, middle aged people, young adults, and infants. However, there is a direct correlation between the age of American citizens and the risk that they are at to be targeted by criminal offenders. The story of “Little Red Cap” (or better known as Little Red Riding-Hood) points this out very vividly. The story begins with the little girl going from her mom’s house to her grandmother’s house only a half hours walk away. She is in the middle of her walk and is then approached by a seemingly non-harmful person portrayed in the story by a wolf. The wolf asks her very “innocent” questions about what she is doing and where she is going and the little girl tells him where she is going and what she is doing. She then stops along the way to pick flowers and the wolf continues to her grandmother’s house and tricks her into opening the door by acting like Little Red Cap and eats her. Little Red Cap then makes her way to the house and is tricked by the wolf and eaten too. A huntsman comes by the house and has to rescue the two women from the belly of the wolf and they escape undigested and unharmed. This is a direct peril of not trusting strangers that you meet in the street and be very aware of the people that you let into your house. This story shows that both older people and younger kids are the most vulnerable age groups to be targeted by criminal offenders.
The first age group of American citizens that are at the most risk to be targeted by criminal offenders is senior citizens. Much like in the story of “Little Red Cap” the grandmother is targeted by the wolf (or criminal offender) to trick her into opening her door so that he can eat her and then eat the girl. “Senior citizens seem to be a special target for scam artists because of...
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