Criminology

Criminology

Introduction

Crime is defined as any action or activity that is carried out without respecting both written and customary law. The crime is similar to the offense although the latter is more directly linked to the break with the written laws and the resulting penalty from the type of crime that was committed. As expected, there are different types and different levels of severity of crimes: while some are burglaries or thefts, some can be really blatant attacks against human integrity as sexual abuse, torture and murder (Owens, 2007). This research paper focuses on identifying some of the aspects of crime that involves the study of crime, people involved in crime, the crime and its costs on the people who commit crimes and community reactions towards crime.

Thesis Statement

The aim of this research paper is to highlight the several aspects related to crime. It will also take into consideration crime and its costs in terms of people suffering from various aspects of crime, and what is the reaction of society towards the occurrence of crime.

Discussion

The Study of Crime

In the study of crime, several factors are involved, the study of criminology involved sociology, statistics and psychology. There are also many theories involved in the study of crime. However, the criminology is the science that studies the" real elements of the offense ". Understand the behavior of actual elements of a man Psychophysical and its effect on the outside world. Crime is not a spontaneous phenomenon. There are always factors that cause or trigger. The criminal exacerbation can be considered the expression of a serious and complicated social unrest impacting on criminal law. In every country in the world and in all periods of history there have been crimes. Crime is a uniquely human behavior that is not observed in other organisms, in which aggression is limited to that necessary to feed and defend the species and territory. In major cities worldwide crime rates have increased dramatically; youth violence is a common phenomenon and increasingly citizens, especially women and the elderly, are insecure (Owens, 2007).

The reason why people resort to crime is the fact that people who are accustomed to it feel pride in them and feel satisfied with what they do. The social nature of crime and social conditioning are manifested primarily in the fact that it arises from the specific acts committed by people in the community and against the interests of society, their specific social behavior. Crime is social is because at the heart of the behavior of each individual are not biological and social causes of social and economic laws, due to the cumulative established social relationships with their laws and contradictions (Nagin, 2007). This can be traced to errors in the socio-economic policies that were made in this country in the "period of stagnation." Violation of organic connection between measures of labor and consumption, distortion of the principles of social justice had a negative impact on the morale and moral state of society, including at the level ...