Crime

Crime

1. Causes

   • Social
     • Lack of education
     • No positive parental guidance
     • No other option but crime
     • Sense of importance and achievement
     • Boredom
     • Abusive childhood
     • Feeling of excitement
     • To avoid feeling rejected by society
   • Environmental
     • Times of high unemployment
     • Geographical Area
     • Poverty
     • Pressure to join gangs
     • Area they live in discourages responsible behaviour
     • Inadequate housing/ overcrowding
     • Lack of education/ poor education
   • Psychological
     • Mental Illness
     • Psychological conditions
     • Human nature- selfish and greedy
     • Need for money and power
     • Media and Advertising encourages this
     • Violence in video games and on TV
     • Influence of Family members' views and opinions

2. Types of Crime

   • Crimes against the person
     • Directed against an individual or group of people
     • Includes serious crimes
       • Murder
       • Rape
     • Also includes other offences
       • Slander
       • Mugging
       • Neglect
     • 19% of crimes were classed as violent offences in 2006/07
   • Crimes against property
     • Crimes of dishonesty
       • Burglary
       • Film and Music Piracy
       • Shoplifting
     • Account for nearly half the total offences
     • Includes criminal damage
       • Vandalism
       • Arson
   • Crimes against the state
     • Against the government or a country
       • Terrorism
       • Leaking government information
       • Tax evasion, false accounting
       • Treason
       • Assassination
   • Religious Offences
     • May or may not be classed as a crime
     • Breaking laws set within a religion
     • E.g. in Christianity, breaking one of the 10 Commandments
       • 'You shall not covet your neighbour's house'- a sin not a crime
     • Blasphemy/Sacrilage
     • in Islam; Converting to another religion