Crime

Will there always be crime does it have a function in society.

What draws someone in to crime if they have other choice for example I know someone who works in fraud prevention for a financial institution the level of specification involved in some of the frauds must mean the perpetrators are intelligent and would have other choices in life.

Bank robbery and other cash robbery type crime has almost been eliminated so to make real money from crime in todays society you would need intelligence? except for drugs and prostitution.

me_irl

Here's a good documentary on it.

pilly

mariaalice wrote: »

Will there always be crime does it have a function in society.

What draws someone in to crime if they have other choice for example I know someone who works in fraud prevention for a financial institution the level of specification involved in some of the frauds must mean the perpetrators are intelligent and would have other choices in life.

Bank robbery and other cash robbery type crime has almost been eliminated so to make real money from crime in todays society you would need intelligence? except for drugs and prostitution.

Jaysus, the drug dealers and prostitutes won't be happy with you! :D

Turtyturd

Basic Durkheim stuff.

Turtyturd

Turtyturd wrote: »

Basic Durkheim stuff.

But in modern regulated society where individuals have a lot of choices in life why is crime still a path or a choice.

Arghus

It's a disgrace Joe.

pilly

mariaalice wrote: »

But in modern regulated society where individuals have a lot of choices in life why is crime still a path or a choice.

There will always be those that thrive on the thrill of it I think.

BrokenArrows

There will always be crime.
Its human nature so always want more than you have and depending on the person they will achieve that in different ways.

Some people work hard to achieve more.
Some people are just lucky and achieve without trying.
Some people are just unlucky and always fail no matter what.
Some people are lazy and try and take the easy way ie. Crime
Some people are high achieving criminals.

Society will always be uneven. There will always be poor and rich and as long as some people have more than others.

The flying mouse

I blame them brothers

The flying mouse

Kane & Able

The flying mouse

August Aichorn is probably the best known neo-Freudian in criminology. Aichorn felt that there were three predisposing traits that had to be present before the emergence of a life of crime:

the desire for immediate gratification, placing greater desire on one’s personal desires over the ability to have good relationships with other people and a lack of guilt over one’s actions.

Turtyturd

mariaalice wrote: »

But in modern regulated society where individuals have a lot of choices in life why is crime still a path or a choice.

Because not everybody has the same choices or the same morals.

The biggest function of crime is probably to demonstrate there are consequences to breaking the law and deterring everybody from doing it.

GritBiscuit

mariaalice wrote: »

But in modern regulated society where individuals have a lot of choices in life why is crime still a path or a choice.

Instead of looking for the answer in terms of who opts out of living within the current laws, you could look at it another way; why do we live in a regulated society at all? Given such measures are necessary in the first place, is it any wonder there will always be a portion of society that does not adhere to the laws imposed on them?