This powerpoint contains 3 different main points on the causes of crime, namely, poverty, family background and delinquent peer.

1. CAUSES OF CRIME IN
MALAYSIA
ARMED ROBBERIES AND MURDERS.

2. INTRODUCTION
• What is crime?
“... an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission
of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender
liable to punishment by that law”
Lim Kwan, 2012

3. CRIME INDEX IN JAN-JUN, 2013
CRIME INDEX FOR 2013
COUNTRY
JAN - JUN
2013
KUALA LUMPUR
11,012
SELANGOR
21,672
JOHOR
8,930
PULAU PINANG
4,296
KEDAH
,197
KELANTAN
2,694
MELAKA
2,172
NEGERI SEMBILAN
3,044
PAHANG
2,555
PERAK
3,804
TERENGGANU
1,736
SABAH
2,812
SARAWAK
4,754
PERLIS
MALAYSIA
449
74,127
• Between January to June this year,
the Petaling Jaya OCPD was
reported to have said that here
were 21,672 cases of crimes at
Selangor which were include
smash-and-grab or armed robberies
and murders . That's an average of
at least five cases a day in the
Klang Valley – one of the many
egregious crimes zones in the
country.
Adapted from: Jenayah
indeks, Portal Rasmi PDRM.

4. • This statistically shows that there are few causes why Malaysia’s rising crime
levels is high and would exacerbate crime level because of family
background, poverty and peer influence.

5. POVERTY
• TOPIC SENTENCE: Poverty is one of the causes that lead to crime events such
as armed robberies and murders.
• S.D 1: Individuals in this category commit crime because they are desperate
of basic needs such as house, healthcare, education and employment.
(Asad Ullah, 2013 ).
• S.D 2: Example-the entry of illegal foreigner in our country.
• S.D 3: Freedom House on 30 September 2013 states that there are more than
2 million illegal workers in Malaysia.

6. FAMILY BACKGROUND
• TOPIC SENTENCE: Bad family background can be the cause for crime in
Malaysia because it can give bad influences for their children and cause
them to turn out to be offenders in the future.
• S.D 1: The lack of parent loves in family, such as single parent, gives bad
influences.
• As Rolf Loeber (year) stated that children should be taken care by adults in
family during important critical period that occur early in children’ lives in
order to help them learn social skill and avoid any aggressive behaviors.

7. FAMILY BACKGROUND
• S.D. 2: The home violence gives also the bad influences for children because
conflict between parent will hurt their children emotionally and cause them
to lose trust on their parent.
• According the Cambridge Somerville Youth Study, the happen of violence
behavior for children was higher in violence conflict family then broken
family that without conflict.

8. FAMILY BACKGROUND
• S.D. 3: In Malaysia, the offenders usually had bad family background when
they were young. According to the statistics of families background for sex
offenders from Department of Psychiatry (2005), 23% of the offenders come
from poor families, 15% from broken families, 6% had positive family history
but with alcohol and drug use, 6% of the offenders brought up from violence
families and 29% of the offenders had not lived with their parent since young.
• CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH: Parent should have good responsible and great
altitude in family in order to provide good family background for their
children, so as to prevent them from becoming offenders that involve in
crimes.

9. PEER INFLUENCES
• TOPIC SENTENCE: One of the strongest and robust correlates to crime and
delinquency is associating with delinquent peers (Warr, 2002, & Fairhurst, L,
n.d.).
• S.D 1: Youth at puberty tend to have the desire to grow older and get
mature by imitating other slightly older youths who committed crimes (The
Court of New Zealand, 2009).
• S.D 2: Youth with delinquent friends showed criminal behaviors (John et al,
2002).

10. PEER INFLUENCES
S.D 3: Involvement with gang members is the most serious level of peer
influence. (Joan, Cathy & Nancy, 2001.)
CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH: Therefore, it’s obvious that peer influences play
an important part too in contributing to the increase of armed robberies and
murders in Malaysia.

11. CONCLUSION
• In a nutshell, poverty, family background and peer influence are the factors
that lead to some crime events
• Ways on decreasing the crime events of armed robberies and murders..
-control the entry of illegal foreigner
-parents carry out their responsibility
-organize campaign and counseling in preventing crimes

12. REFERENCES
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Fairhurst, L. (n.d.). Study identifies gene in young men with delinquent peers.
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