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Crime
* All crime reflects the stress level of society generally
  - crimes are crimes of hate
* Legends Legends about thieves, drugs and murdering madmen.
* Many crimes occur because people are in the wrong place at the wrong time
  - in places where women with disabilities receive services, learn, work or live
* Most crime actually occurs during the day, or inside buildings.
* Most crime causes injuries
  - serious injuries
  - is caused by biological factors
* Most crime is committed by career criminals
  - right-handed persons
  - in daylight
  - made up of random, unpredictable, unconnected incidents
  - related to drug use
  - occurs in cities
  - relates to money
* Most crimes are crimes of opportunity
  - punishable under state, rather than federal, laws
  - do interfere with someone else's freedom, happiness or security
* Most crimes happen at night
  - because someone gave a criminal an opportunity to act
* Most crimes involve the theft of personal property
  - theft of personal property in public areas or burglary from cars or residences
  - involving child victims are felonies
  - occur when a criminal finds a safe and easy opportunity to strike
  - take place when there is less police presence
* Some crimes consist merely of criminal negligence that produces criminal consequences
  - have different degrees that provide for different forms of punishment
* account for fewer than half of firearm deaths.
* affects everyone, whether young or old, poor or rich
  - people across the racial, ethnic, religious and sexual spectrum
* also drives the security industry
  - exists in both organized and un organized forms
  - is considered the most serious problem in all age and income groups
* always has a human face and affects real people in real ways.
* applies particularly to an act that breaks a law that has been made for public good.
* are actions which are defined by the government to be criminal
  - considered offenses against the state, or society as a whole
* byproduct of fear.
* can destroy a neighborhood's capacity to function
  - infect a community
  - play a big part in rough sleepers' lives
  - range from an act of vandalism to murder
* causes consequences
  - gun control laws, gun control causes crime
* civil rights violation.
* comes in many forms and occurs in many places
  - mostly from the mistakes of the family, school, religion and government
  - with market economy and democracy
* committed by psychopathics are often very gruesome, horrible and senseless.
* commodity, it is used to sell a product and to enhance revenue for the media.
* community concern, and crime stoppers allow people to help anonymously
  - problem that calls for community solutions
* complex problem with multiple causes and hence no one solution
  - subject woven deep in any country's social fabric
* constant percent of the population.
* damages people, communities, and relationships
  - the social fabric that makes communities healthy
* destabilises the economy and impacts dramatically on the poor and historically disadvantaged.
* devastates communities, neighborhoods, families and individuals.
* disease like any other malady and product of the prevalent social system.
* disease, somewhat like cancer.
* disrupts the health, personal outlook and relationships of victims.
* does increase in the summer months
  - pay when dealing with credit cards
* draws attention
  - national attention
* drops when there are more people around.
* endangers local communities.
* especially problem that involves cross-jurisdictional mobility.
* exists as a part of the economic institution and lifestyle for many people
  - everywhere
  - in our physical world, and so it does in the digital world
  - when society decays
* fact of life
  - the human species
* feeds on itself and creates attitudes of acceptance and desperation within the population.
* forces businesses to spend billions of dollars on security.
* fundamental indicator of social stability.
* game with criminal and detective playing hide and seek.
* great problem in the Western world.
* greater problem for the lower income people than for the better off.
* growing concern in all school systems.
* happens on campuses.
* has a large and prolonged effect on victims
  - high societal costs and significantly detracts from community life
  - neither a home country, nor ethnicity
  - wide-ranging effects on communities
* have different degrees of seriousness.
* high-risk occupation.
* increases across the socio-economic strata
  - fear and breeds frustration
* involves contact
  - intellectual properties
* is activities
  - against people
  - also often a bigger problem for the poor than it is for the non-poor
* is an attack on human rights
  - inseparable part of any human community, and every society has the crimes it deserves
* is an issue in some rental complexes and neighborhoods
  - which affects everyone, regardless of their race
* is an offense against human relationships
  - unchangeable fact of life
* is an undeniable fact of life
  - factor in our society
* is at a high level in urban areas of the state
  - least three or four times greater in the major urban areas
  - centred around the socio-economic problems experienced by our people
  - committed at the international level
  - common in favelas, as many of the people have no other way to make money
  - concentrated in urban America
  - considered within the broader context of social deviance
  - constantly on the increase, resulting in loss of life and loss of profits
  - crime as pregnancy is pregnancy
  - crime, regardless of who is committing the crime
  - dangerous to local communities
  - down in the United States and other countries where it had become epidemic
  - endemic to capitalism
  - essentially an absence of civility
  - everyone's business because it affects everyone
  - everywhere and can affect anyone
  - films
  - generally a young person's game
  - hate crime
* is high in Monrovia, with theft and assault prevalent, particularly at night
  - the capital, with theft and assault prevalent, particularly at night
  - in a person's frame of mind
  - increasings
* is located in demonstrations
  - jails
  - mainly an activity of the young and especially young males
* is more likely to be committed against unarmed people
  - than an instance of behavior
  - obviously one of the factors contributing to the decline of cities and towns
  - on the increase in Suriname, especially in the capital Paramaribo
* is one of the major factors that perpetuates a shadow economy and thus a shadow middle class
  - most serious problems faced by modern society
  - partly a product of the structured inequality of capitalist economic system
* is pervasive and varies substantially across countries
  - in American society, but victims and criminals have identified characteristics
* is prevalent and, in many cases, a way of life
  - in Zambia
* is primarily an offense against human relationships and secondarily a violation of the law
  - the outcome of multiple adverse social, economic, cultural and family conditions
  - rampant in cities all around the world
  - recognized as harm done to victims and the community
* is reported in many ways
  - when police verify that it has been committed
  - scary things
  - seen as more than simply a violation of the criminal law
  - sort of in between political action and war
  - still rampant around the world
  - studied by criminology, sociology or law and dealt with by the criminal justice system
* is the dark side of global e-commerce
  - degenerate factor in society
  - responsibility of police and community together
  - result of opportunity plus desire
  - top problem in all age and income groups
  - violation of one human being by another
  - transgression
  - unique with respect to the wide range of costs it inflicts on a community
* is viewed as a social dilemma, which effects our beliefs, life styles and society in general
  - an act against another person and the community
  - what society, through the courts or parliament, defines as such
  - widespread in Zambia
  - widespread, and the population is declining, a large part of it living in poverty
* learned behavior.
* local problem, even if it is occurring simultaneously in many places.
* major engine of economic growth in some countries - in Italy and Russia, for example.
* matter of people choosing to do wrong.
* menace that disturbs any country.
* moral problem.
* motivated by hate and fear affect a community more than any other crime
  - or prejudice are serious violations of the law
  - racial or homophobic prejudice fall into a category termed hate crime
* national problem that affects areas, including college campuses
  - rural and urban areas alike
* neighborhood problem that needs a neighborhood solution.
* occur during the day as well as at night
  - everywhere and to all types of people
* occurs everywhere
  - to a certain degree in every culture
* occurs when the forces that bind people to society are weakened or broken
  - victims and offenders converge in the absence of a guardian or intimate handier
* often occur while driving, parking or walking to and from vehicles
  - results from victims trying to recoup gambling losses
* plunges both children and communities into general degeneration and violence.
* problem in Zambia.
* problem that concerns nearly everyone
  - cuts across campus, city and state boundaries and affects the entire nation
  - ignores campus, city, and state boundaries and affects the entire nation
* product of government social control and of power relations in society.
* quality of life issue.
* rag-bag of different actions or inactions that have been offensive.
* result of oppression.
* serious problem in the United States.
* side effect of patriarchy.
* significant threat at airports.
* social fact and it is connected with poverty
  - phenomenon
  - problem whose ultimate sources are poverty, unemployment and economic insecurity
* socially constructed phenomenon.
* societal problem.
* stems from the human heart.
* symptom of ills within society.
* takes places.
* tends to be lower where people know one another and interact more often.
* threatens survival.
* touches most people, directly or indirectly, at some point in their lifetimes.
* traditional instrument of rule.
* typically increases during the summer because of the influx of tourists.
* undermines the quality of life in our society.
* usually results from problems such as substance abuse, loss of control and other factors.
* violation of one person by another
  - people and of their relationships
  - relationships between people
* way of life among the otters
+ Favelas: Shanty towns :: Brazil
  * They are mostly found on the outskirts of urban areas. The people living in the favelas are the poor, and the rich people live in the city. Most of the buildings in favelas are made out of cheap materials, like plastic, wood, glass and scrap. The people usually build their houses themselves and invite their friends to help them build. Crime is common in favelas, as many of the people have no other way to make money. The favelas themselves are also considered illegal, because the people do not pay tax.