Growing crime and youth violence and victimization

Exposure to crime and violence was evident.

A significant increase of crime was gang violence involving disenfranchised young men.

In our cities, ordinary citizens live in fear of crime and violence.

8. To tackle the causes of violence and crime, including drug trafficking.

Frequent unreported incidents of inter ethnic violence and crime affect security and freedom of movement.

This includes levels of residential burglary, property and street crime, incivilities , substance abuse and violence against women, and there is more intolerance of crime.

Elsewhere, the fear of crime and a pervasive atmosphere of violence make normal family life impossible.

Addiction breeds crime, terrorism and violence and threatens a total breakdown of the social fabric.

Secondly, it focuses on the reduction of drug related violence and the control and prevention of crime.

This deprivation in turn generates high social costs, including crime, violence, and dependency.

They also lead to poverty, lack of faith in the future, violence, corruption and organized crime.

An alarmingly high rate of violence, including economic and political crime, continues to plague the country.

65. There have been some instances of selective non political violence by members of communities affected by crime.

Notwithstanding these developments, the world today is still beset by violence and other forms of serious crime.

We also call upon the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to take steps towards making gender based violence a crime, especially violence against women migrant workers and the victims of the traffic in women.

Public perception of and reactions to urban crime and youth violence tend to demand rapid and punitive responses.

However, the fact is that today family violence, crime, drugs, abuse and slavery are part of family relations.

Colonialism was a crime against humanity and its obvious aftermath were the high crime, corruption, violence and unemployment rates that plagued Puerto Rican society.

This approach to crime prevention represents an evolution in understanding how to prevent urban violence.

Domestic violence, which had previously been considered a private matter, had become a serious crime.

Until 2004, family violence was not sanctioned as a separate crime in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Macedonia.

This in turn reduces unemployment and a number of associated social problems such as crime, drug use, and violence.

According to the Chief Minister, the main causes of crime are drug abuse, domestic violence, unemployment and illegal immigration.

Under the Zambian Penal Code, violence against women was a crime and treated as an assault.

Families, many of them headed by single mothers, are weakened by poverty, ill health and high rates of crime and violence.

Rates of crime and violence have increased in developing countries in particular, often in association with firearms and drug trafficking.

An important consideration was criminalization of violent conduct, such as domestic violence which was not always treated as a crime.

There is now growing action globally to prevent crime and violence against women and girls, including violence in the home and in public spaces, and trafficking.

Chapters discuss the use of firearms in intimate partner violence, the evolution of gangs in Nicaragua, organized crime groups in Italy (such as the mafia), and trends in armed violence in South Africa.

Regarding rates of crime and violence, the Caribbean has the third highest murder rate in the world (44 per 100,000 inhabitants).

Institute for Security Studies, Crime and Crime Prevention in South Africa (2004) Scared at School Sexual Violence against Girls in South African Schools (New York, Human Rights Watch, 2001) and Deadly Delay South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors of Sexual Violence (Human Rights Watch, 2004).

Youth note that Governments in many countries still do not differentiate between petty crimes, violence and organized crime.

Violation can be judged in courts, but there is no Law that defines domestic violence as a crime.

People without income or security fall prey to crime and violence, and often get trapped in protracted conflict.

Crime and drug related violence also continue to pose day to day threats to the overall security situation.

While noting that various forms of assistance are provided to victims of domestic violence, the Committee is concerned that domestic violence is currently not defined in law as a specific crime, which makes it more difficult for victims of violence to claim their rights.

The representative explained that violence against women came in different forms for instance, prostitution was treated as violence against women, which was a crime under the Penal Code.

This phenomenon is perceived as a contributing factor to the rising rates of crime and violence, especially in the mega cities, since many unemployed youths eventually become involved in street gangs and organized crime.

Violence Individuals with severe mental illness including schizophrenia are at a significantly greater risk of being victims of both violent and non violent crime.

Unfortunately, as seen in the case of other forms of violence such as organized crime, it seems unlikely that terrorism will be completely eliminated.

Discussions at the Ninth Congress focused on exploring new concepts and concerns in the areas of crimes against the environment criminal justice and police systems and strategies to be used against violent crime, urban crime, crime among young people and violence inflicted on women.

The third law (Law No. 10.886 2004) adds provisions to Article 129 of the Penal Code to typify domestic violence as a crime.

Some of these types of violence are considered a crime, while others are not considered crimes or otherwise go unpunished by law in certain societies.

The crime of violence against women was not regulated in the Code of Persons and the Family but rather in the Penal Code, which prohibited it. The revised Penal Code would deal with domestic violence as well.