Taking a Look at the Crime Rate in Jakarta

Jakarta is the densest city in Indonesia and already become a crime-prone area. Crime that occurred in Jakarta is directly related with the city development which increasingly becoming crowded and metropolitan city. So that make Jakarta is no longer a safe city to live in. Now, Jakarta becomes a city which have high crime rate.

Crime itself have a mean that it is not a hereditary event (inborn, inheritance) and also not a biological heritage but unlawful behavior and violate social norms, so that make society against. It can be as an act anti-social causes harm, noncompliance in the community, so that there is anxiety in the community, and to appease the public. The state must impose penalties on criminals (Bemmelem(Husein, 2003)). Criminal behavior that can be done by anyone, both women and men can take place at the age of child, adult or advanced age.

According to Enrico Ferri (1905) with sociological view, there are 3 factors that become the cause of crime can be happen, that are:

1. Individual (anthropologist) which includes: age, sex or gender, civil status, profession or job, residence, stratification, education, and psychological.

2. Physical (nature): race, ethnicity, climate, fertility, disproportion of the earth, in the state of nature at night and during the day, season, meteoric conditions, humidity and temperature.

3. Social: population density, community composition, customs, religion, government order. Economic conditions and industries, education, social security, legislature and judiciary, and others.

Whereas according to Sir Francis Bacon (1600) the cause of crime is there is chance to become a thief. Free will, hedonistic decisions, and failure to do a social contract (Voltaire & Rousseau, 1700) and anti-socia...

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...e rehabilitation or repressive. And individuals can do the preventive and not always need expertness. For the example are keep our self to not become a crime victim, not neglect to lock the house or vehicle, installing lights in a dark place, etc. the second is the preventive efforts need not lead to negative consequences such as, among others: stigmatisms (bad labeling on convicted/fostered), exile, characterized by suffering each community heterogeneity and social development and because it may not be destroyed until the end.

Crime is the act improperly, which consequently can harm themselves, others and will give birth to a new crime. Crime in Jakarta is one of the examples of another crime which happen in other city or other country. It can be learning materials to the country of city, that it was a dangerous criminal not only for the victims but for everyone.