Street Crimes

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.

While all crimes are a wrong committed against society, some do more damage to society then others. The street crime is the most harmful of crimes, it is responsible for the disintegration of society as we know it. This allows the deviant, liberal opportunity to break the law. This is the major reason why street crime is so harmful. They can also be attributed to the decline of local business and the drop in education and pride in ones communities as well. People live in constant fear of being a victim of crime.

This is evident in a neighborhoods loss of economic development and criminal deviants become the role model for the younger members of society due to their appearance as a figure of wealth and power. This individual fear can lead to indirect victimization, that on society as a whole. Most street crimes are committed by deviants to the members of their own neighborhoods. Street crimes are perhaps the most harmful to society, caused by the deviant criminal behavior on ones own neighborhood, this causes its destruction. The members of society through their illegal actions are destroying society. Street crime has caused the legal economical, educational and moral declines in many neighborhoods. Another aspect of how street crime ruins society is that the act is usually committed within the society itself. Where white-collar crime does not directly effect society, street crime does.