Essays on Property Crime

The world today is seeing more immigration than ever before, both legal and illegal. While countries forging solid links with one another in the vein of the European Union (hereafter referred to as EU for brevity) has encouraged legal immigration of all kinds, while war and deprivation in various other parts of the world has led to a burgeoning refugee crisis, with more people entering Western countries than can be adequately or carefully handled at any one time. These forms of immigration can be seen as quite different to each other at face value; however, when looked at in ...

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Property crime entails taking of property without involving threat or force against the victim. It includes motor vehicle theft, shoplifting, arson, larceny, burglary, as well as vandalism. Motor vehicle theft is among the common forms of property crime. There are several criminal motivations for motor vehicle theft. These include financial gain, commercial, spare parts, object to commit other crimes, as well as transportation. In most cases, those who are involved in motor vehicle theft are motivated by the financial gain (Stauffer & Bonfanti, 2006). In fact, they need money to meet their gambling, drug and alcohol addiction. Financial gains tend ...

Deviant behavior does not adhere to the cultural norms and social accepted norms (Akers, 2011). Deviance comprises of behavior that violates expectations and standards of conduct of a group or society. Crime is one of the forms of deviance. In this paper, crime has been described as major type of deviance. Crime is considered as an act of deviance because in crime norm as well as law is broken. Crime as deviant behavior can be minor or it can be major such as it can be picking an individual’s nose or it can be commitment of murder. There ...