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    The document discusses crime as a social problem and identifies several causes of crime. It states that crime violates criminal law and represents a deviation from social norms. There are no societies without crime. One issue is powerful criminals can often avoid punishment while punishing others. Poverty, flaws in the education system, unemployment, problems with the political system, and changes in social values are identified as key causes of crime. Poverty is described as directly or indirectly responsible for many types of crimes. Unemployment can also encourage crimes like robbery or violence. Complicated legal systems and corruption allow criminals to avoid punishment at times. Changes in social values from industrialization have reduced restrictions and contributed to more crimes.

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    The document discusses crime as a social problem and identifies several causes of crime. It states that crime violates criminal law and represents a deviation from social norms. There are no societies without crime. One issue is powerful criminals can often avoid punishment while punishing others. Poverty, flaws in the education system, unemployment, problems with the political system, and changes in social values are identified as key causes of crime. Poverty is described as directly or indirectly responsible for many types of crimes. Unemployment can also encourage crimes like robbery or violence. Complicated legal systems and corruption allow criminals to avoid punishment at times. Changes in social values from industrialization have reduced restrictions and contributed to more crimes.

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    The document discusses crime as a social problem and identifies several causes of crime. It states that crime violates criminal law and represents a deviation from social norms. There are no societies without crime. One issue is powerful criminals can often avoid punishment while punishing others. Poverty, flaws in the education system, unemployment, problems with the political system, and changes in social values are identified as key causes of crime. Poverty is described as directly or indirectly responsible for many types of crimes. Unemployment can also encourage crimes like robbery or violence. Complicated legal systems and corruption allow criminals to avoid punishment at times. Changes in social values from industrialization have reduced restrictions and contributed to more crimes.

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    CRIME AS SOCIAL PROBLEM

    Crime is a violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some

    governmental authority. It represents some type of deviation from formal social norms

    administered by the state. Crimes are divided by law into various categories, depending

    on the severity of the offence, the age of the offender, the potential punishment that can

    be levied, and the court that holds jurisdiction over the case. There is no society in any

    part of the world, which is without crimes.

    One of the serious problems of today‘s crimes is that in many cases the criminals

    are socially, politically and economically so powerful that they decide the course of

    punishment for others while they themselves manage to get escaped completely.

    CAUSES OF CRIME

    There are many causes of the crime. Few of the many causes may be discussed as under:

    1. Poverty

    2. Education System

    3. Unemployment

    4. Political Setup

    5. Change in Values

    1. Poverty

    Poverty is one of the most importance causes of crime. In fact it can be said that it is the

    root cause of many crimes. Though poverty is a relative term, yet in every form it result

    in corruption and adopting illegal and underhand means. Poverty results in committing

    suicide and prostitution as well as bribery and so on. Directly or indirectly poverty is

    responsible for all sorts of crimes.

    2. Educational System

    Unfortunately present day educational system is very defective. The system of education

    does not lay stress on morality and character, which are effective forces for checking

    crimes. Similarly we find the education is mostly not vocational biased and does not

    help the young people to get timely employment. Delay in getting proper employment

    encourages tendency towards crime.


    3. Unemployment

    In the economic field unemployment plays an important role in committing of crimes.

    Thus an unemployed young person can become robber or a thief. He can become violent

    and take law into his own hands. In this way unemployment results in many crimes. That

    is the reason that we find that in countries, which have undeveloped economy, and in

    which chances of unemployment are marginal, rate of crimes is high.

    4. Political Set up

    Our political set up also encourages crimes in our modern times government machineries

    are slow and inefficient with the result that this becomes premium on the illegal activities

    of the criminals. Similarly our legal system too is very complex and complicated and the

    criminals are confident that they can escape free and involve some innocent persons in it.

    They know that by their illegally earned wealth they can purchase as well as mould the

    course of law. Not only this, but we find that some of our politicians encourage criminals

    for one reason or the other.

    5. Change in Values

    As we know that due to industrialization and advancement of science and advancement

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    of science and technology social values have very greatly changed. Today we are more

    materialists and rational as well as individualists. Collectivism and blind faith is being

    replaced by new ideas. Due to these changes, social values have also together changed

    and restrictions considerably reduced. This has resulted in committing many crimes.

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