Street Crimes

IS STREET CRIME MORE HARMFUL THAN WHITE COLLAR CRIME?
Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime?
By general definition, a crime is a wronging, proclaimed by law against society. All acts
of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a
wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings which gave us concepts
of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. From our being submerged in a
culture, our concept of crime is usually that of a physical one. We as a society,
generally conjure images of a personal assault on oneself when defining the concept of a
crime. Very rarely would ones first connotation of crime be of an executive of a large
firm stealing money from the business. We as a society, generally define our concepts by
our surroundings. Society is more frequently exposed to street crimes. It is very rare
that a day goes by that we do not learn a murder, physical attack or robbery through the
media. Those so called street crimes effect our neighborhoods and society everyday. Those
crimes are contributing to the destruction of society, our cities, our streets. The
street crime is the most harmful of crimes, it is responsible for the disintegration of
society as we know it.
To demonstrate the harm caused by society by street crime, one has to look no further
than to inner city neighborhoods. Street crimes are responsible for injuries, death,
sexual assaults and the loss of personal property through force. They can also be
attributed to the decline of local business and the drop in education and pride in ones
communities as well. In the lower economic neighborhoods, many resort to crime for
financial reasons. Members of the community sell drugs or rob as means of support. These
deviants do not inflict these crimes on neighborhoods other than their own. This is the
major reason why street crime is so harmful. The members of society through their illegal
actions are... [continues]

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