NAME: ARSLAN ALI

CLASS: BSIT 2A
ARID NO: 19-ARID-5293
ASSIGNMENT NO: 03
CAUSES OF CRIMES IN PAKISTAN

Crime:-
"A crime is an offence that merits community condemnation and
punishment, usually by way of fine or imprisonment. This is different from a civil
wrong (a tort), which is an action against an individual that requires compensation
or restitution".

Who defines a crime:-

A crime is created by The Sumerian people from what is now Iraq produced the
earliest known example of a written set of criminal laws. Their code, created
around The Sumerian people from what is now Iraq produced the earliest known
example of a written set of criminal laws. Their code, created around 2100-2050
BC, was the first to create a distinction between criminal and civil wrongdoings.,
was the first to create a distinction between criminal and civil wrongdoings.

Causes Of Crime In Pakistan:-

So if we talk about the crimes in Pakistan Aurangzeb (2012) pointed out the major
causes of crime in Pakistan. The result showed that households' consumption or
demand of basic needs, total population, education, wage rate are the major
causes to increase crime rate in Pakistan. The study also found that electricity
crisis is the weakly associated with crime.

The first empirical study investigated by Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973) on the
relationship between crime and other socio-economic factors. This study mainly
focuses on the multiple psychological and socio-economic factors such as, peer
relations, inherited influence (negative risk averse attitude), broken families or
family disputes, unemployment, level of education, age, locality of residence,
family income, marital status and family size, which influences criminal activities
in Bahawalnagar district, Pakistan.
The possible causes of increasing crime in our society are enumerated as under:
• Economic disputes
Economic disputes over the distribution of land and property etc. are mostly the
causes of crimes. Uneconomic and fragmented landholdings and lack of their
proper demarcation further aggravate the crime situation in the country.
• Family and Marriage
The disputes in the family and marriage institutions in the shape of
divorces,separation and elopments, etc.result in serious types of crimes in both
rural and urban areas.
• Illiteracy and Ignorance
Mass illiteracy and ignorance of the people is the major cause of large number of
crimes. The number of most of the murders and other petty crimes can be
decreased through spread of education in the country; because most of the
illiterate and ignorant persons commit crime without realizing its social , economic
and psychological implications upon themselves and their families.
• Factions and Feuds
Old factions and feuds keep the inhabitants of different localities divided into
different groups These inter-group oppositions and conflicts result in many serious
types of crimes like murders, thefts, decoities and elopments ets.
• Imposed Leadership
Imposed leadership both in rural and urban areas is the root of different minor
and major types of crimes in the country. Big landlords and businessmen in their
specific areas try to maintain their false prestige or imposed leadership by hook or
by crook, which leads to different types of deviants in society.
• Lack of Means Of Communication and Transportaion
There are certain geographical areas which are not approachable to police and
law agencies due to lack of different means of communication and transportation
and thus such areas become rampart of crimes and other anti-social activities.
• Poverty
Poverty is the major factor responsible for criminal behaviour . When the
economic position of an indivisual is not sound and satisfactory he develops
hatred against the other prosperous members of society . Thus the state of
economic instability and frustration leads an individual to commit grave type of
crimes, which can not be expected under normal circumstances.
 • Emotional Disturbance
There are certain types of crimes, which mostly do not occur under normal
circumstances and are, generally , do not pre-planned. For instance, rape and
murder mostly occur due to the emotional disturbance of an individual which
otherwise seem to be impossible.
• Lack Of Religious Control
The force of religion is loosing its hold over the masses, which is increasing the
rate of crime in the country. Fear of GOD and thorough understanding of religion
serve a strong force of social control over the masses.
• Un-Employment
Un-Employment and Under-Employment of a large section of population result in
increasing the crime rate . This appears valid for the youngsters in particular.

There are many more crimes that are performed on daily basis but on the above
these few points justifies all the causes due to which the crime take place in
Pakistan.