Types of Crime

Crime has been a growing problem all over the world in the last 30 years. Crimes involving stealing are the most popular, such as burglaries, shopliftings, pickpocket. Crimes of violence, when an attacker threatens or tries to apply violence. Murder, someone is killed intentionally. If the killing was not fully intentional, the crime is manslaughter. Illegal damaging other people’s property is called vandalism. Criminals use violence or threats to get money and so on. These are robberies, mugging, kidnapping, blackmail. Lots of crimes are connected with drugs and (quit a member of crimes is committed by people being drunk) under the influence of alcohol.
Some car crimes are not very serious, such as illegal parking, some are dangerous both for drivers and pedestrians – drunk driving, reckless driving, speeding. The number of crimes committed by people in business or in influential jobs is increasing: bribery, corruption, forgery, tax evasion. And finally crimes committed for political reasons: politically motivated killings, most leaders are afraid of assassination. The businessmen are taken hostage by terrorists while traveling in the Middle East. Hijacking of passenger planes can be heard now and then.
A crime is an act that contravenes a law. Political authorities are likely to make behavior illegal if it meets two conditions: first, it must be considered too socially disruptive to be permitted, and second, it must be difficult to control through informal sanctions alone. By formally declaring certain acts to be crimes, political authorities can ensure that the social reaction to them takes place in an or­derly and predictable way. Thus, the law defines the exact nature of the offense, indicates who is prohibited from performing it, and specifies the formal, negative sanctions that may be applied to the offender.
Like all forms of deviance, crime is a relative matter. In medieval Iceland it...

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