URDANETA CITY UNIVERSITY

San Vicente West, Urdaneta City

College of Criminal Justice Education

Subject: Theories in Crime Causations

Reporter: Aquino, Rafael B.

De Vera, Clark Harvey T.

Nastor, Mark Ace D.

Mendoza, Meynard Lorenz F.

Date: 10- - 19

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A. TOPIC
 Top Causes of Crime
 Weakness
 Poor Judgement
 Lack of Love
 Poverty
 Deprived Neighborhoods
 Chain of events Victim
 Fatherless
 Ecological

B. INTRODUCTION

A crime is a fact, a matter of law and it is not an opinion. As society changes, some actions which used to be criminal
are no longer so. Likewise some actions which were legal can become prohibited. An example of this is the introduction of
by laws which allow local authorities to prohibit drinking in designated public places. Laws are made by the politicians we
elect democratically we may not agree with the law but there are democratic opportunities to change it. In a democratic
society someone charged with a crime has the opportunity to defend him/herself. He or she will be deemed innocent until
proven guilty by a criminal court. Punishments traditionally reflect the seriousness of the crime, the most serious are those
which involve violence and/or loss of life .The causes of crime are complex. Poverty, parental neglect, low self-esteem,
alcohol and drug abuse can be connected to why people break the law. Some are at greater risk of becoming offenders
because of the circumstances into which they are born.
 C. BODY.

WEAKNESS

Weakness Causes Crime . If someone chooses to offend, that is their responsibility and if caught, they should suffer. They
believe that if punishments were stronger and the police and courts had more powers, there would be less crime.

The society is unequal and some people are at greater risk of being influenced by criminal behaviour, often through the
actions of parents or friends.

Social conditions contributes to a crime also. This could be avoided through better housing, improved employment
opportunities and a more equal society to make crime less of an attraction. If people are in work and are content with life
they will be less likely to break the law.

POOR JUDGEMENT

These people are making choices about their behavior; some even consider a life of crime better than a regular job, believing
crime brings in greater rewards, admiration, and excitement at least until they are caught. Others get an adrenaline rush when
successfully carrying out a dangerous crime. Others commit crimes on impulse, out of rage or fear.

LACK OF LOVE

Without father and mother who is responsible in caring for the children they bring into the world. This loss of love and
guidance at the intimate levels of marriage and family has broad social consequences for children and for the wider
community. The empirical evidence shows that too many young men and women from broken families tend to have a much
weaker sense of connection with their neighborhood and are prone to exploit its members to satisfy their unmet needs or
desires. This contributes to a loss of a sense of community and to the disintegration of neighborhoods into social chaos and
violent crime.

POVERTY

Poverty is a characteristic of the economic situation of the individual or social group in which they cannot satisfy a certain
range of the minimum requirements needed for life saving ability. Poverty is a relative concept and depends on the overall
standard of living in this society. This crisis makes people react and do something, even if it is illegal, they start committing
a crime just to sustain their needs.

DEPRIVED NEIGHBORHOODS

Violent crime wreaks a terrible impact not only on individual victims, their families, and friends but also on nearby residents
and the fabric of their neighborhoods. Exposure to violent crime can damage people’s health and development, and violence
can push communities into vicious circles of decay.

CHAIN OF EVENTS VICTIM

Crimes with physical or psychic suffering are usually the most traumatizing ones. If such acting leads to serious injury or
death, the family and close relatives are traumatized. Sometimes the intensity of suffering may be lower but can last long
period for example in cases of domestic violence, abuse of women and children, sexual abuse of children, bullying at school
or in military service. You may recall cases when the long-termed abused person took up for extreme solution ,attempted
suicide or attacked the aggressor. Those who commits crime have been experience unpleasant situations in the past.

FATHERLESS

children raised in single-parent households experience more physical and psychological problems compared to those raised
in two parent households, Lack of paternal involvement has also been associated with a higher likelihood of being bullied
and experiencing abuse. Children who grow up without their fathers may come to resent paternal figures due to perceived
abandonment. These feelings may burgeon from a lack of trust and result in a heightened sense of anger.

ECOLOGICAL

Social (or human) ecology may be broadly defined as the study of the social and behavioral consequences of the interaction
between human beings and their environment. It specifically explores the causes and consequences of processes of
segregation, the emergence through selection of environmental differentiation along key dimensions such as population
composition and land use. It investigates how exposure to different environments (area and place based differential social
organization and activities) influences human development and action. The social ecology of crime is the study of one
particular behavioral outcome of these processes, the violation of rules of conduct defined in law. It focuses on the role of
the environment in the development of people’s differential propensity to engage in crime and their differential exposure to
settings conducive to engagement in acts of crime.

D. CONCLUSION

There are many factors that contributes to the occurrence of crime. If we don't control our emotions and feelings we
might have done things that we don't really want. Sometimes our society or our environment can change ones behavior,
people can adapt criminal behavior specifically to the areas that are not organize and crimes are done anywhere. Theres also
instances that crimes occur because of lack of resources that people needs to survive. They choose to commit crimes in order
to sustain their needs. People have no choice but to commit crimes because they have no decent job or work that can sustain
their everyday lives.

E. RECOMENDATION

Based on our own perspective, crimes are not easily being eradicate but through guidance of our family, providing
livelihood, and love from our parents we can reduce or prevent people to commits crime. We recommend that we need to
focus on solving issues that greatly contributes or attract people to commit crime like poverty. If people are satisfied of what
they have, they will not commit crime anymore because they are already contented at the same time if theres a proper
guidance of our parents especially those still at young age that are very vulnerable when it comes to crime, we might
successfully reduce the occurence of crime.