2. What is Crime?
• Crime is the breech of Rules or Laws. Now a days
crime has become an integral part of human society.
Crime is a deviant behaviour that violate prevailing
norms, cultural standards prescribing how humans
ought to behave normally. Changing social, political,
psychological, and economic conditions may affect
the concept of crime and the form of the legal, law
enforcement, and penal responses made by the
authority concerned.
3. What is Crime?
• Crime is an area of increasing concern not only in India but all
over the world. The effect of crime may be varied in nature.
Criminals are constantly adopting new techniques and
methodology and are developing net works that transcend
national boundaries. This is a challenge for the law
enforcement agencies, policy makers, social scientists and
other stake holders of the criminal justice system.
Information on different aspects of crimes and criminals is
required to analyse the trends and design effective
intervention strategies to prevent and compact crime in the
society.
5. Causes of Crime:
Weakness : People are not bad by nature, but some times too
timid to resist the vicious evil that play on their weakness.
Humans are good, but not every one is made of a very strong
mind so as to defend themselves against the evil forces of
destructive emotions and detrimental attitudes like fear,
ignorance, hatred, worry, revenge, envy, attachment, greed,
lust, selfishness, doubt, prejudice, pride, vanity, impatience,
sloth, discrimination, arrogance, ambition, addiction,
gluttony, criticism, blame, anxiety, frustration etc. All people
may get attacked by those faulty ethereal goblins of their
minds and hearts, but most of the people succeed to resist
them.It is easy to act on anger, greed, revenge or any of
highlighted above, but it takes courage and strength to
determine that there is some thing more important than that.
there are two core reasons why weakness prevails with some
people
6. Causes of crime
Lack of faith: not believing enough in the power
of one's own internal weapons such as courage,
tolerance, understanding, forgiveness, mercy,
honesty, sincerity, honour, modesty,
humbleness, generosity, love, patience, self-
discipline, temperance etc
7. Cause of Crime:
• Imbalance : Most criminals are simply too
strong physically, pumping up the body
muscles, but not enough the mental and
emotional muscles. The reason why their
strength becomes weakness is because they
are not balanced.
8. Causes of Crime
• Poor judgement: Lack of proper education and great role
models causes many to fail to distinguish right from wrong.
In most cases offenders don't think they are doing
something wrong, it seems right from their point of view.
Poor judgement is also reflected in knowing it's wrong, but
thinking they could get away with it, not getting caught.
• Lack of love: Being raised in a dysfunctional family, or
coming from a disadvantaged background, or feeling
discriminated, none of it alone cause crime. There are so
many others in the world with such conditions, but
nevertheless don't turn to crime. How ever they cause the
lack of love and respect for others. That, endorsed with
some other factors, can be a major issue related to crime.
9. Causes of Crime
Poverty: Poverty is often blamed for leading to crime, however
underneath is some thing more vital- society bombards with
commercial values making one want more and more material things,
to the point when some would do any thing ( including criminal acts )
to get them. Unemployment is another factor in this category that
contributes to crime through looking ways to earn money by any
means possible.
Deprived neighbourhoods: Economically impoverished
neighbourhoods breed criminal minds.
Television violence.
Being a victim in a chain of events: Some times individuals don't mean
to cause harm, but are drawn in to it by a chain of events that are
beyond their control or influence.
10. Causes of Crime
Poor parenting skills: Erratic or harsh discipline.
Lack of parental control, supervision and monitoring.
Parental conflict.
Family dysfunction / breakdown.
Criminal, antisocial and / or alcoholic parents.
Fatherless is also one of underestimated cause of crime.
12. Ways to prevent crime.
There are many ways we can take control and help prevent
crime in our home, in our neighbourhood, at our local schools
and in our society. It is a matter of communication,
commitment, and time.
13. Ways to Prevent Crime
1. Work with public agencies and other organizations, neighbourhood or
community wide - on solving common problems.
2. Make sure that all the youth in the neighbourhood have positive ways to
spend their time, through organised recreation, tutoring programs, part-
time work, and volunteer opportunities.
3. Set up a Neighbourhood watch or Community patrol, working with
Police, make sure the streets and homes are well lighted.
5. Build a partnership with Police, focused on solving problems instead of
reacting to crisis. Make it possible for neighbours to report suspicious
activity or crimes with out fear of retaliation.
6. Clean up the neighbourhood. Involve every one - teens children, senior
citizens. Call the public works department and ask for help in cleaning
up.
7. Ask local officials to use new ways to get criminals out our building or
neighbourhood. These include enforcing anti-noise laws, housing codes,
health and fire codes, anti-nuisance laws and drug-free clauses in rental
leases.
14. Ways to Prevent Crime
1. Work with schools to establish drug-free, tobacco-free zones, work
with officials concerned to do the same for parks.
2. Develop and share a phone list of local organisations that can
provide counselling, job training, guidances and other services that
neighbours might need.
3. Report a crime if you witness it or some thing you suspect might be a
crime. Agree to testify if needed.
4. Learn about hot-lines, crisis centres, and other help available to
victims of crime. Find out how you can help those who are touched
by violence to recover as quickly and completely as possible.
5. Recognise that it is already your problem if violence is about to erupt
in your neighbourhood.
6. Volunteer to mentor young people who need positive support from
adults.
7. Talk with children in the neighbourhood about what worries or
scares them and about where and how they have felt threatened by
violence. Interview teachers, school staff, crossing guards and bus
aides.
15. Ways to Prevent Crime
1. Promote public service advertising that offers anti-violence programs
and services. Get several groups to cooperate in this effort. Include
programs to help kids headed for trouble.
2. Protect domestic violence victims and their children through policies as
well as laws that offer them prompt and meaningful response to calls for
help and appropriate legal recourse.
3. Adopt a school. Help students, faculty and staff to promote a sense of
community in the school and with the larger community through
involvement in a wide range programs and activities.
4. Join with school and law enforcement in creating and sustaining safe
corridors for students travelling to and from schools. Help with efforts to
identify and eliminate neighbourhood trouble spots.
5. Help students through such opportunities as job skill development,
entrepreneurship and intern-ship.
6. Encourage employees to work with students in skill training, youth
group leadership, mentor servicing, coaching and small group activities.
make your facilities available for these activities when possible.
16. Ways to Prevent Crime
1. Provide anger management, stress relief, and conflict resolution training for your
employees. They can help build an anti-violence climate at home, at school, and
in the community. You might gain a more productive working environment too.
3. Speak up in support of funding and effective implementation of programs and
other resources that help schools develop an effective set of violence prevention
strategies.
4. Help employees who are parents to meet with teachers by providing flexible
hours or time off, encourage employee involvement in sponsoring or coaching in
school and after school activities.
6. Develop an anti-violence competition, including speech, dance, painting,
drawing, singing, instrumental music, acting, play-writing and other creative arts.
Get youth to help suggest prizes. Make it a community celebration.
7. Help strengthen links between school services and the net work of community
services that can help students and families facing problems.
8. Enlist children from elementary grade to senior high level in solving the violence
problems in the school and community. Encourage them to teach violence
prevention to younger children, reach out to educate peers, work with adults on
community wide problems, and identify and tackle community conditions that
they are concerned about.
