CAUSES OF CRIME IN MALAYSIAARMED ROBBERIES AND MURDERS.

INTRODUCTION

• What is crime?

“... an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law”

Lim Kwan, 2012

CRIME INDEX IN JAN-JUN, 2013

COUNTRY

CRIME INDEX FOR 2013

JAN - JUN2013

KUALA LUMPUR 11,012

SELANGOR 21,672

JOHOR 8,930

PULAU PINANG 4,296

KEDAH ,197

KELANTAN 2,694

MELAKA 2,172

NEGERI SEMBILAN 3,044

PAHANG 2,555

PERAK 3,804

TERENGGANU 1,736

SABAH 2,812

SARAWAK 4,754

PERLIS 449

MALAYSIA 74,127

• Between January to June this year, the Petaling Jaya OCPD was reported to have said that here were 21,672 cases of crimes at Selangor which were include smash-and-grab or armed robberies and murders . That's an average of at least five cases a day in the Klang Valley – one of the many egregious crimes zones in the country.

Adapted from: Jenayah indeks, Portal Rasmi PDRM.

• This statistically shows that there are few causes why Malaysia’s rising crime levels is high and would exacerbate crime level because of family background, poverty and peer influence.

POVERTY

• TOPIC SENTENCE: Poverty is one of the causes that lead to crime events such as armed robberies and murders.

• S.D 1: Individuals in this category commit crime because they are desperate of basic needs such as house, healthcare, education and employment. (Asad Ullah, 2013 ).

• S.D 2: Example-the entry of illegal foreigner in our country.

• S.D 3: Freedom House on 30 September 2013 states that there are more than 2 million illegal workers in Malaysia.

FAMILY BACKGROUND

• TOPIC SENTENCE: Bad family background can be the cause for crime in Malaysia because it can give bad influences for their children and cause them to turn out to be offenders in the future.

• S.D 1: The lack of parent loves in family, such as single parent, gives bad influences.

• As Rolf Loeber (year) stated that children should be taken care by adults in family during important critical period that occur early in children’ lives in order to help them learn social skill and avoid any aggressive behaviors.

FAMILY BACKGROUND

• S.D. 2: The home violence gives also the bad influences for children because conflict between parent will hurt their children emotionally and cause them to lose trust on their parent.

• According the Cambridge Somerville Youth Study, the happen of violence behavior for children was higher in violence conflict family then broken family that without conflict.

FAMILY BACKGROUND

• S.D. 3: In Malaysia, the offenders usually had bad family background when they were young. According to the statistics of families background for sex offenders from Department of Psychiatry (2005), 23% of the offenders come from poor families, 15% from broken families, 6% had positive family history but with alcohol and drug use, 6% of the offenders brought up from violence families and 29% of the offenders had not lived with their parent since young.

• CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH: Parent should have good responsible and great altitude in family in order to provide good family background for their children, so as to prevent them from becoming offenders that involve in crimes.

PEER INFLUENCES

• TOPIC SENTENCE: One of the strongest and robust correlates to crime and delinquency is associating with delinquent peers (Warr, 2002, & Fairhurst, L, n.d.).

• S.D 1: Youth at puberty tend to have the desire to grow older and get mature by imitating other slightly older youths who committed crimes (The Court of New Zealand, 2009).

• S.D 2: Youth with delinquent friends showed criminal behaviors (John et al, 2002).

PEER INFLUENCES

S.D 3: Involvement with gang members is the most serious level of peer influence. (Joan, Cathy & Nancy, 2001.)

CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH: Therefore, it’s obvious that peer influences play an important part too in contributing to the increase of armed robberies and murders in Malaysia.

CONCLUSION

• In a nutshell, poverty, family background and peer influence are the factors that lead to some crime events

• Ways on decreasing the crime events of armed robberies and murders..

-control the entry of illegal foreigner

-parents carry out their responsibility

-organize campaign and counseling in preventing crimes

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