Can some one explain to me the basic reason for crime?

Question

Crime is on the increase inspite of all the efforts all over the world by various governments. Why is its so.

Answer 1

Crime is mainly hereditary and partly environmental. The genetic cause of crime is unknown for most administrators. Inspite over forty years of study, the hereditary reasons of crime is yet to penetrate most of the books of conventional criminology.
High rates of criminality tend to run in families. The persons who frequently commit the most serious crimes typically begin their criminal careers at a quite young age. Persons who turn out to be criminals usually do not do very well in school. Programmes designed to rehabilitate high-rate offenders have not been shown to have much success, and those programmes that do manage to reduce criminality among certain kinds of offenders often increase it among others.
The baby boom may help explain why crime rose in 1960s and 1970s, but it cannot explain why some members of that boom became criminals and others did not…. Many children may attend bad schools, but only a small minority become serious criminals… Economic crime rates were lower in the great Depression than during the prosperous years of the 1960s … The sentences given by judges may affect the crime rate, but we are struck by the fact that the most serious criminals begin offending at a very early age--long before they encounter, or probably even hear of, judges…. Racism and Capitalism may contribute to crime. But crime has risen in the US (and other nations) most rapidly during recent times, when we have surely become less racist………High crime rates can be found in socialist as well as capitalist nations, and some capitalist nations, such as Japan and Switzerland, have very little crime… Crime existed abundantly long before the advent of television and would continue long after any hint of violence was expunged from TV Programme…….. All blacks suffer from racism, yet relatively few blacks become high rate offenders……Religion is not as pervasive a part of family life in Japan as it is in many Latin-American nations; despite this crime rates are much lower in Japan than in the Latin countries.
There is no “crime gene” and so there is no such thing as a “born criminal” but some traits that are to a degree heritable, such as intelligence and temperament, affect to some extent the likelihood that such individuals will engage in criminal activities……..We believe that criminal behaviour, like all human behaviour, results from a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Our knowledge of this interaction is not yet good enough to permit anyone to say with confidence how much of the variation in the law violating behaviour of people can be attributed to genetic and how much to environmental factors. But we do know enough to be fairly confident that criminal behaviour cannot be explained wholly by reference to the social circumstances in which an individual finds herself or himself.
Johannes Lange, a German physician, located thirty pairs of same-sex twins of which at least one was a known criminal. Lange concluded that thirteen of the pairs were identical (monozygotic) and seventeen fraternal (Dizygotic). He then noted that in ten of the thirteen pairs of MZ twins, both were criminal, while in only two of the seventeen pairs of DZ twins were both criminal.
Karl Christiansen reviewed nine studies of twins, all but one of which concluded that criminal behaviour had a partial genetic basis mixed with environmental factors.
An approximation to ideal twin study was reported by Christiansen based on a sample of 3586 twin pairs from the Danish Twin Register, a full listing of twins born in Denmark between 1870 and 1920. Prison, police and court records turned up entries… the probability of finding, a criminal twin when the other twin was a criminal was 0.5 for MZ twins at 0.21 for same sex DZ twins indicative of a genetic contribution to criminal behaviour.
To many people, it would seem absurd to imagine that low intelligence could have an important effect on individual differences in criminality.…. In fact there appears to be a clear and consistent link between criminality and low intelligence. People obviously vary in intelligence, and to most observers, it is apparent that the variations are somewhat inherited great or lesser talents, as well as major or minor intellectual disabilities, seem to run in families, much the same way as height or physique or hair colour.,…Despite over forty years of confirmation, the correlation between intelligence and crime has yet to penetrate most of the textbooks or the environmental wisdom of criminology… Most recent evidence, based on a variety of intelligence tests, consistently reveals a difference of about 8 points between the mean 1Q’s of delinquent and the general population.
A test of the possibility that people shape neighborhoods more than neighborhoods shape people was made possible in Great Britain by the fact that the government there has devoted great energy and large sums to relocating persons from decaying inner city areas to new public housing in outlying areas, so much so that in many large English cities today as much as half the housing is publicly managed. Yet relocating families to new and better public housing has not reduced levels of delinquency, which have continued to rise… The great majority of persons who commit crimes at high rates begin their criminal careers at quit early ages; there are relatively few “late bloomers”.
The number of suicides in Britain and the United States goes up significantly after a well-published suicides…. If some kind of published violence can lead to additional violence, then it is possible that some kinds of published penalties for violence might lead to its reduction. By examining changes in the number of homicides over sixty three years (1858-1921) in London, Philips was able to find evidence of a decline of one-third in the number homicides immediately following a publicized execution. The greater the publicity, the greater the decline. The decline lasted about two weeks followed by an increase during the next three .The deterrent effect of the publicized executions, thus, was temporary. A similar short term decline seems to occur in American homicides during the period immediately after the publication of stories about murderers being punished by life sentences or executions.
All of us had the experience of feeling hostile, angry, or excited after seeing a motion picture or television programme that portrayed either violence or some obvious injustice that seemed to require violent retribution. But few of us are then immediately confronted with a chance to punch a doll, administer a “shock” or start a fight. Instead, we are usually compounded with the need to wash the dishes, catch bus, or do our homework. By the time we have a chance to act violently, the excitement is gone, the anger subdued, and our time horizon lengthened. Conscious and prudence have returned to govern our actions in their customary ways.
“We did not find that the television viewers were any more aggressive or maladjusted than the controls, television is unlikely to cause aggressive behaviour, although it could precipitate it in those few children who are emotionally disturbed”. Hilde T. Himmelweit et al.
More intelligent persons are probably more likely than less intelligent ones to have a longer time horizon and to take into account a wider array of likely consequents of both crime and non-crime.
David Bayley in 1976 estimated that the risk of being robbed was 208 times greater in the United States than it was in Japan……. A newspaper article recently reported concern among Japanese authorities over a rise in senseless street murders, which had brought the total for their entire nation for the year of 1982 up to thirteen. The American newspaperman observed that a single bad weekend in New York City would result in thirteen street murders……Japan is an industrialized and urbanized nation. Its cities are more than three times as densely packed with people as cities in the US. About 70 percent of each country’s population in urban……Japan has fewer police officer percapita than the US…… Statutory penalties for given crimes are less severe in Japan than in the US………. The per capita number of lawyers in Japan is about one-seventeenth what it is in US….. The average Japanese IQ score is about 110, well above that for any country for which data are available…… Japan therefore has smaller fraction of its population in the range of scores between 60 and 100, the range at highest risk for criminal behaviour….
In virtually every society, there are differences in crime rate among some social and ethnic groups. Americans of Chinese and Japanese origin have significantly lower criminals than other Americans…… During the 1960s, one neighbourhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with income under $4000 per year, the least education attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing of any area of the city. The neighbourhood was called Chinatown. Yet in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.
Wolfgang, Figlio and Sellin found that at every socioeconomic level and among blacks as well as whites, delinquents had lower IQ scores than non-delinquents……High-rate offenders, black or white, begin to manifest delinquent behaviour quite early in life, often in the elementary school grades, long before they would have had any direct experience with the labour market and become discouraged with a futile search for jobs.

Answer 2

There are a lot of reasons for the increase in crime; social, economical, enviromental, political, and cultural. For us older folks the news was more of a local nature 50 years ago. Today a robbery in Penticton (in BC. I think?) is flashed on the Little Dildo, Newfoundland) radio station. Bad news and perception of frequency sells air time and newspapers.Polls and surveys taken by political parties, the media, and other groups ask ambiguous questions which have predetermined answers. No matter how ill-informed the interviewee is , they have an opinion who's answer is included in the polls.
I don't know how many times I've heard the words, " there otta be a law........." And rest assured the politicians, legal system, and special interest groups are all too happy to give it to you.One more nail in the coffin of freedom. The mental patients who were thrown into the street when mental hospitals and facilities were closed by the government created another tier for the justice system to expand into. The outlook for the youth of today and yesterday was and is compromised by societies downgrading of the work ethic. "we do the talk but don't show the walk.". The 'ME' generation; society owes me a living and if THEY can't find me a job that I like, well, society will pay me, one way or another. For the older person to hear thoes words by a youth increases the perception of crime on the increase.
Laws and legislation are enacted that do not necessarily fall under the heading 'need to know'. Orders in Council are not advertised for us , the citizens. Henze, the saying; Ignorance of the Law is no excuse. The government and its agents in the justice system had created sections in the lawbooks that 'prohibit' but are not generally publicly advertised which leave huge gaps in our ignorance of the law.
Culturally, what is an accepted practice or a mandatory belief in another country would be or could be a crime in Canada.
There have been and always will be thieves, robbers, and murderers in this country and the rest of the world. No politician or cop on every street corner will put an end to that.The undesirable elements do stay current in their exploits so that we will hear new ways and methods of operating.
We have to be vigilant in our dealing with thoes who would force the rest of us into a lowered economic way of life . We also have to be vigilant in what to believe, what we hear in the media , from politicians and self serving special interest groups.
How is this for an entertaining thought?

Paranoia will raise your taxes.

Answer 3

The basic reason for crime I feel is lack of love and caring for each other, and that's everywhere in the world. Governments are the biggest corrupter's. Their efforts only increase crime by making more laws and rules and fines without solving the problems. Until we all learn to live, so all men and woman are equal, and love not money rules, their will always be crime!

Answer 4

Your own Government is the basic reason for crime.

Government creates laws. Laws restrict what people can and cannot do or have. People eventually break laws. Laws impose fines and sanctions. Fines and sanctions feed the Government to create more laws.

Try to imagine if cigarettes were illegal. In the US, the Government promote no smoking. It is now a CRIME to smoke in public.

If I am the US Government, I will shut down all tobacco companies to cut the supply and stop people from smoking. But because the US Government gets billions of dollars from campaign contributions of tobacco companies and from cigarette taxes, they don't.

At the end of the day, CRIME is a way for Government to make money.

Answer 5

A crime is an act that violates a political, religious, or moral command considered important in protecting the interests of the State or the welfare of its citizens or subjects. The word "crime" came from Latin crimen (genitive criminis), from the Latin root cernō and Greek κρινω = "I judge". Originally it meant "charge (in law), guilt, accusation". Informal relationships and sanctions have been deemed insufficient to create and maintain a desired social order, resulting in formalized systems of social control by the government, or more broadly, the State. With the institutional and legal machinery at their disposal, agents of the State are able to compel individuals to conform to behavioural norms and punish those that do not. Various mechanisms are employed to regulate behaviour, including rules codified into laws, policing people to ensure they comply with those laws, and other policies and practices designed to prevent crime. In addition are remedies and sanctions, and collectively these constitute a criminal justice system. Not all breaches of the law, however, are considered crimes, for example, breaches of contract and other civil law offenses. The label of "crime" and the accompanying social stigma are normally reserved for those activities that are injurious to the general population or the State, including some that cause serious loss or damage to individuals. The label is intended to assert an hegemony of a dominant population, or to reflect a consensus of condemnation for the identified behavior and to justify a punishment imposed by the State. in the event that an accused person is tried and convicted of a crime. The term "crime" can also technically refer to the use of criminal law to regulate minor infractions, such as traffic violations. Usually, the perpetrator of the crime is a natural person, but in some jurisdictions and in some moral environments, legal persons are also considered to have the capability of committing crimes. The State can also technically commit crimes, although this is only rarely reflected in the justice system.

Answer 6

Crime, in general, is the law of nature overcomming the laws of man. Most of the behaviors, defined as "crime" by our society, have been around a lot longer than the laws of civilization.

Answer 7

crimes build up for some thing reasons :-
(1) Social invironment
(2) Poverty & uneducated
(3). political invironment
(4) A familis financial & social statas
(5) To selter the crime in police dept & govt level
Sorry, it will never controlld in all over world.

Answer 8

Intent to commit a crime. Or are you asking what motivates crime?

Well, let's see. Poverty, desperation, hunger, thirst, drug addiction, greed, a desire to earn fast money without doing anything. Other reasons, jealousy, love, lust, hate, and avarice.

You name it, you will find a motive for crime. There simply is no basic reason for it. It exists for a number of reasons.

Answer 9

Well there isn't one particular for people to commit crime. But most of crime due to starvation or suffering of some kind rest are fro revenge and thrills even for adventure.spartan

Answer 10

The main inequality in this globe is the inequality we see in getting parental love,care,support and appreciation as well as encouragement.There are a lot who are denied these.Most of them are envious of those who enjoy these.Their envy is manifested in different ways. Crime is on such manifestation.Learn to love unconditionally children and get rid of future criminals.
G Asok

Answer 11

It all about the haves VS the have nots.There are desperate people in this world,it does'nt help that the government won't help.To the have nots the best way to get what the haves, have is to take it.