Research Assignment

Sundas Khan

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Crime is defined as An action or an instance of negligence that is injurious to the public

welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited. In the sociological
field, crime is the breach of a rule or law for which some which some governing authority or force
may ultimately prescribe a punishment. The word crime is derived from the Latin word Crimen. Crime is
everywhere. Different countries define crime differently in their criminal codes, no country is without
crime. An increasing number of countries now report statistics concerning traditional crimes (murder,
robbery, rape, theft, burglary, fraud, and assault) to the United Nations surveys. Crimes rate computed
from surveys are universally higher than those of official records. There are so many kinds or types of
crimes such as; Crimes against person or people, Crime against Property, White Collar Crimes, Victimless
Crimes etc.
T YPES OF CRIME
Crime against person
Crime against person / people includes murder, attempt to murder, hurt, rioting, and assault on public
servant, rape or sexual assault, kidnapping or abduction etc.
Crime against property
Crime against property includes highway dacoit, bank dacoit, petrol pump dacoit, other dacoit, highway
robbery, bank robbery, petrol pump robbery, other robbery, burglary, cattle theft, motor vehicle, other
theft etc.
White collar crimes
It is defined as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of
his occupation. White collar crime includes bank fraud, black mail, cellular phone fraud, computer
fraud, credit card fraud, insider trading, insurance fraud, theft, and tax evasion etc.
Victimless crimes
Victimless crimes include drug addiction, prostitute, and suicide etc
BACKGROUND
We have chosen this topic because of increasing crime rate in Pakistan during the last couple of years.
We have to study the causes and factors behind this critical issue and also give some suggestions and
recommendations to overcome this problem . Overall crime rate in the country is today higher than
what it was two years ago. Official figures prove that the overall crime rate, both at the Centre and in all
the provinces, has increased despite tall claims made by the present federal or provincial rulers.
Recently, The News ran a story on prices of daily use supplies, which also shows an enormous increase
during the first two years of the present democratic set-up as against the prices in early 2008. It is also a
failure of the political parties and their governments to ameliorate the worsening conditions of the
ordinary citizens, and ensure the safety of their life and property. Official figures show that the
countrywide reported crime during 2006-07 include a total of20,082 cases of murder, which increased
to 24,036 in 2008 and 2009. Rape/Zina cases registered in 2006-07 were 4,300 as against 5,712 in 200809. There were 19,909 kidnapping cases in 2006-07, but this crime rose to 29,602 in 2008 and 2009. The
crime of kidnapping for
ransom, which has become a business owing to governments apathy, also saw a rise from 569
in 2006-07 to 1,058 in 2008-09. Car theft cases have also seen a phenomenal increase from42,056 in
2006 and 2007 to 61,108 during 2008-09. The incidents of dacoity, robbery, burglary and other crimes
have also increased during the last two years. However, it is interesting to note that the cases of cattle
theft have decreased from 22,421 to 18,100.

BJECTIVES

Our objective of research is to: Study the causes and important factors which are causing
increased crime rate in Pakistan.
Summarize some of the articles about the crimes in Pakistan which will be very helpful for our
further research.
Study what people think about government actions and what are their suggestions to get rid of
this issue.
List out the findings from literature review, analysis of data collected from predesigned
questionnaire and interviews form people including victim of criminal acts.
We also have to give some recommendations that how can we increase awareness among
people and what actions government should take to nip the evil from the bud.