SURVEY OF UNCONTROLLED

CRIMES IN PAKISTAN
SUBMITTED TO :
Syed Muhammad Waqas Shah
(Lecturer IT)
SUBIMITTED BY:
Areesha Malik
Soha Tariq
Uswah Hameed Siddiqui
Amna Asad
Ismail Afzal
Imran Hassan Khan

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Table of Contents SUBJECT PAGE

1. INTRODUCTION

2. TYPES OF CRIMES

2.1 Crimes against person

2.2 Crimes against property

2.3 Organized Crimes

2.4 White Collar Crimes

2.5 Victimless Crimes

3. CRIME RATE 2016/17, PAKISTAN

4. REASONS BEHIND CRIME

4.1 Unemployment/Poverty

4.2 Illiteracy

4.3 Inflation

4.4 Urbanization

4.5 Poor Police department

4.6 Family Conditions

4.7 Peer Presence

5. EFFECTS

5.1 Police Response

5.2 Robbery

5.3 Rape

5.4 Drug Dealing

5.5 Kidnapping

5.6 Cyber Crime

5.7 Corruption

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5.8 Murder

6. SUGGESTIONS

7. CONCLUSIONS

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Introduction:
Crime is described as “The exertion or occurrence of negligence that in result causes harm for
the people’s well-being or to their ethics or to the state’s interests that is illicit”. In accordance
with the definition of the sociological department, crime means the breaking of rules and
regulations of which, punishment may be directed finally by the administrative authority. The
word crime is derived from the Latin word Crimen.

Crime is not just limited to few countries; it is everywhere across the world. It is described
disparately by different countries according to their own criminal codes. There is no such
country where there is no crime. According to the United Nations surveys, statistics regarding
usual crimes (murder, robbery, rape, theft, fraud, assault and burglary) are being reported by a
growing numbers of countries. Crime rate that is evaluated by surveys is globally higher as
compared to those official records of crimes. Crimes are of numerous kinds such as; Crimes
against Person, Crimes against Property, White Collar Crimes and Victimless Crimes etc.

Types of crimes:
 Crimes against person:
Crimes against person are those crimes which directly affect people like murder, attempt to
murder, kidnapping, rape or sexual assault etc.

 Crimes against property:

Crimes against property are those ones which cause harms to the property of people like bank
dacoit, highway dacoit, bank robbery, Petrol pump robbery, burglary, cattle theft etc.

 Organized crimes:
Organized crimes are those crimes which are done according to a definite plan like drug
trafficking, cyber-crimes, terrorism etc.

 White collar crimes:

White collar crimes are those crimes which are committed by a person having high social status
in the course of his occupation. For example corruption, insider trading, tax evasion, theft etc.

 Victimless crimes:
Victimless crimes include drug addiction, prostitute, suicide etc.

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Crime rates 2016-17 in Pakistan:
According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, in 2016 and 2017 the rate of crimes against persons and
crimes against property is high as compared to other crimes. These crimes are mostly observed in
Punjab and KPK. Such crimes include murder, robbery, theft, abduction etc.

Crime rate in Pakistan, 2016

Offence Punjab KPK Sindh Balochistan Pakistan

Murder 3995 2481 1445 382 8516

Attempt to murder 4647 2900 1955 340 10279
Kidnapping/Abduction 13349 1214 2891 215 18057
Dacoit crimes 825 58 707 30 1636
Robbery 10078 206 2409 160 13088
Burglary 11586 840 1472 154 14572
Cattle theft 5384 122 419 67 6068
Other theft 29674 1093 2455 249 34320
Other 328610 163403 58794 7051 571018

Total recorded crimes 408148 172317 72547 8648 677554

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
A very little difference in the crime rate has been observed from 2016 to 2017.

Crime rate in Pakistan, 2017

Offence Punjab KPK Sindh Balochistan Pakistan

Murder 3914 2361 1409 325 8235

Attempt to murder 4440 2641 1644 333 9499
Kidnapping/Abduction 13558 1197 2927 248 18363
Dacoit crimes 602 45 572 38 1280
Robbery 9385 276 2364 185 12458
Burglary 11023 798 1344 135 13833
Cattle theft 4721 126 383 39 5342
Other theft 33053 882 2221 272 37304
Other 325149 172504 57409 7917 577611

Total recorded crimes 405845 180830 70273 9492 683925

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

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Reasons behind crimes:
Many reasons are involved in the increasing rate of crimes in Pakistan. Some of these reasons are
as follows:

 Unemployment/Poverty:
The major cause of crimes in Pakistan is unemployment and poverty. When
unemployment rate increase, the opportunities of earning income decrease. As a result
people commit more crimes.
 Illiteracy:
Illiteracy rate is high in Pakistan which is another great cause of crimes. Uneducated
people use illegal ways for earning purposes.
 Inflation:
Moreover inflation promotes crimes. Increased prices result in the decreased income level
of people belonging to low income group. There should be a stability maintained between
price and income level.
 Urbanization:
Urbanization is also a great reason behind crimes in Pakistan. Government should take
steps to reduce urbanization or should provide better facilities.
 Poor police department:
It has been identified constantly that Pakistan’s police forces are supervised dreadfully,
poorly trained, awfully politicized and are chronically corrupt. This is also a reason
behind increasing crime rate in Pakistan.

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Police response:
It has been observed over last few years that Pakistan’s police department has not remained
active against crimes. They have failed to improve and modernize their police institutions. There
are different punishments for different crimes according to their penal code in Pakistan law
system but due to poor management, these laws are not implied correctly. Government is
enforced to pay more heed for the purpose to innovate’ the police forces and to encourage their
infrastructure because of increasing crimes and militancy throughout the whole country.

Suggestions:
There are some of the solutions which should be adopted by the Government to reduce the
increasing crime rate making the way of progress smooth for the country.

 Judiciary system should be made strong and accessible to every citizen in Pakistan.
 Sincere and honest officers should be appointed in law maintaining agencies.
 Salary of police officers should be increased.
 Employment opportunities should be provided to youth to keep them away from crimes.
 Our foreign policy should be revised.
 More industries should be set up to increase job opportunities.

Conclusion:
The main objective of the study is to identify the economic factors such as unemployment,
poverty, inflation and urbanization which are responsible for increasing crimes in Pakistan. The
following conclusions have been drawn from the study:

 A crime is a wrong-doing classified by the state or the parliament of the country or law of
the land.
 Each country sets out a series of crimes which are prohibited and punishes a criminal of
these acts by a fine or imprisonment or both.
 The results of the data analysis reveal that unemployment is the major cause of crimes.
When earning income opportunities are not available to people they commit more crimes.
 Poverty is also a great reason behind crimes but it has also been observed that people
having a high social status also commit crimes like corruption at a big level.
 These increasing crimes cause fear and insecurity among people.
 Government should pay attention and should take steps to reduce crime rate in Pakistan
making it a crime free country.
 Illiteracy rate should be reduced and job opportunities should be increased.

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