CRIMES AND NARCOTICS

Crime

A crime occurs when someone breaks the law by an overt act, omission or neglect that can result in punishment. A person who has violated a law, or has breached a rule, is said to have committed a criminal offense.

Omission Can Be a Crime

There are also crimes that are neither violent nor involve property damage. Running a stop sign is a crime, because it puts the public in danger, even though no one is injured and no property is damaged. If the law is not obeyed, there could be injury and damage.

Causes of crime

There is a combination of factors behind a person who commits a crime. Our family values,education, political, law enforcement, and economy have alot to do with potential criminal activities of individuals. Some reasons for committing a crime could be pride, jealousy, revenge, anger, or greed. Some crimes are carefully planned out very well in order to advance to increase gain and decrease risk. Criminals tend to make the choices about this behavior and consider a life of crime as a full time job. They believe that crime brings to them a greater reward, excitement, and admiration, until they are caught. Other criminals might get an adrenaline rush when they successfully carry out a dangerous crime.

Types of Crimes

 There are two main categories of crime: property crime and violent crime:

Property crimes

                    A property crime is committed when someone damages, destroys or steals someone else's property, such as stealing a car or vandalizing a building. Property crimes are by far the most commonly committed crime.

                   Crimes against property are not as obvious as they sound. Although they deal with damage or theft of physical property, sometimes they also involve harm or threat to individuals. When people are involved, the penalties for crimes against property can increase a great deal.

Arson Destroys Property

                Arson is a crime against property. The seriousness of penalties often depends on whether anyone was inside the property at the time it was set on fire. When an owner sets fire to his own property to make an insurance claim, this is usually a felony.

Vandalism and Defacement

              Even if property is not totally destroyed, damaging it is still a crime. Spray-painting someone's automobile, digging up a public garden, or throwing a rock to break someone's window are all examples of vandalism or defacement. These are crimes against property.

Theft Is a Property Crime

Stealing is a complicated property crime because it falls into so many different categories. Theft is the most minor charge. Theft involves taking something that doesn't belong to you. You might see a laptop sitting untended on a park bench, pick it up, and carry it off. The value of what you take usually determines the penalty. If you shoplift a tube of lipstick, it would be a misdemeanor.

Burglary Is More Serious Than Theft

Burglary involves entering a building to take something, and it can be a felony if was another person is inside the building when you enter. Burglary also includes entering any other type of property, such as someone's automobile or a storage facility.

Some Property Crimes Are Less Obvious

Some property crimes may seem so minor, you're not even aware you're breaking the law. For example, it's illegal to hook into your neighbor's television cable hookup. Technically, you're stealing something that your neighbor has paid for - the signal from the cable provider.

Automobiles Are Property

Automobile crimes include auto theft and carjacking. Auto theft involves stealing a parked vehicle. Carjacking is more serious, because the owner is driving the vehicle at the time you take it.

Violent crimes

 A violent crime occurs when someone harms, attempts to harm, threatens to harm or even conspires to harm someone else. Violent crimes are offenses which involve force or threat of force, such as rape, robbery or homicide.

 The category of crimes against people includes crimes such as murder, rape, assault, child abuse and sexual harassment.

Murder or homicide

Murder is the unlawful killing, of another human, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). As the loss of a human being inflicts enormous grief upon the individuals close to the victim, and the commission of a murder is highly detrimental to the good order within society, most societies both present and in antiquity have considered it a most serious crime worthy of the harshest of punishment. In most countries, a person convicted of murder is typically given a long prison sentence, possibly a life sentence where permitted, and in some countries, the death penalty may be imposed for such an act though this practice is becoming less common.

 Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The term is most often defined in criminal law.

Child abuse

   Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment or neglect of a child or children

The four main types are physical, sexual, psychological, and neglect.

Physical abuse

Physical abuse involves physical aggression directed at a child by an adult. Most nations with child-abuse laws consider the deliberate infliction of serious injuries, or actions that place the child at obvious risk of serious injury or death, to be illegal. Physical abuse is the intentional or non-accidental production of a physical injury. Bruises, scratches, burns, broken bones, lacerations, as well as repeated mishaps and rough treatment that could cause physical injury, are the results of physical abuse.

Sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation. Sexual abuse refers to the participation of a child in a sexual act aimed toward the physical gratification or the financial profit of the person committing the act.

Effects of child sexual abuse include guilt and self-blame, flashbacks, nightmares, insomnia, fear of things associated with the abuse (including objects, smells places, doctor's visits, etc.).

Psychological/emotional abuse

Emotional abuse is defined as the production of psychological and social deficits in the growth of a child as a result of behavior such as loud yelling, coarse and rude attitude, inattention, harsh criticism, torture, withholding communication and humiliation.

Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.In most modern legal contexts, sexual harassment is illegal.

Narcotics

The term narcotic originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with any sleep-inducing properties

Narcotics are a mix of legal and illegal drugs that include opium and its derivatives- opiates, morphine, heroin and others.

As drugs, both legal and illegal, narcotics are highly addictive, so any prescribed opiate-based medication needs to be taken as instructed and under strict doctor’s supervision.

Alcohol

Alcohol is a depressant that affects every part of your body. The damage it does now can impact the rest of your life.

Drink, booze, brew, hooch, moonshine.

Alcohol is a depressant derived from the natural fermentation of fruits, vegetables and grains. These are brewed and distilled into a wide range of beverages with various alcohol contents.

The Risks

           It will loosen a person up and help him/her to relax. It can damage the part of brain that controls coordination, memory, judgment and decision-making. Drinking made dumber slur the words, lose coordination and reactions will become slower.

      Effects of alcohol can overwhelm the body's defenses. Unable to move and think clearly, you can do stupid, risky and reckless things that are unsafe, or even lethal.

Cocaine

Cocaine is a highly addictive drug that can be risky even the first time.

Blow, bump, candy, Charlie, coke, snow

Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from the processed leaves of the coca plant.

The Risks

To smoke or snort it for the first time the blood vessels constrict immediately. This increases heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature. At first, this may make sweaty and shaky, but seizures, cardiac arrest and even death. Because it's so highly addictive, it's easy to get hooked, and the long-term effects can get really ugly.

Mushrooms

Some people think that because they're natural, that means they're okay to ingest. But the truth is that hallucinogenic mushrooms are a natural poison that can harm the body and mind.

Magic mushrooms, caps, boomers

The active chemical in hallucinogenic mushrooms is called psilocybin. This chemical is found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms. Hallucinogenic mushrooms have a high potential for abuse.

The Risks

Mushrooms work by disrupting how your nerve cells and the neurotransmitter serotonin interact throughout the brain and spinal cord. By changing the normal functioning of serotonin in the brain, mushrooms distort the way you process information and can make you hallucinate (it becomes difficult to tell the difference between fantasy and reality). You may see, feel and hear things that don't exist. You can also have rapid and intense emotional mood swings.

Inhalants

Inhalants are simply toxic chemical vapors. Sniff, huff or inhale these chemicals can easily damage the brain or shut it down forever.

Laughing gas, poppers, snappers, whippets.

Inhalants can be found in a range of products, like paint thinners, glues, cleaning products, gases, lighter fluids and aerosol spray.

The Risks

Inhalants are highly toxic substances that produce dangerous chemical vapors. "Sudden sniffing death" can happen to a completely healthy young person from a single session of inhalant use. Inhalants produce effects similar to those of anesthesia. They slow the body down, produce a numbing feeling and can cause unconsciousness. Inhaling concentrated amounts of these chemicals can cause heart failure, suffocation, convulsions, seizures and coma. Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body. .Inhalants can also do damage to the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys. Prolonged abuse can permanently affect thinking, movement, vision and hearing.

TOBACCO & NICOTINE

Tobacco is a carrier for the highly addictive drug nicotine. Once the body gets a taste for nicotine, it can quickly become a life-long addiction, with extremely fatal consequences.

(Cigarettes) smokes, cigs or butts. (Smokeless tobacco) chew, dip, spit tobacco, snuff

Nicotine is the main drug in all forms of tobacco. Nicotine acts as both a stimulant and a sedative.

The Risks

Smoking harms the immune system and can affect nearly every organ of the body. When you smoke, it's not only the nicotine that's dangerous, but also chemicals in tobacco like carbon monoxide, tar, formaldehyde, cyanide and ammonia-many of which are known carcinogens (cancer-causing poisons). Carbon monoxide keeps red blood cells from getting the full load of oxygen needed for healthy cellular growth. Chewing or sniffing tobacco is just as dangerous as smoking and also has a high risk of addiction. And prolonged use of smokeless tobacco leads to a high risk of cancers of the mouth. Bidis and hookahs have become popular alternatives to smoking cigarettes and some people seem to think they are less harmful than regular cigarettes. The truth is that hookah smoke still delivers addictive nicotine, and bidis actually have more nicotine than cigarettes. So both are at least as toxic as cigarettes, with bidis having the potential to be even more harmful.

Crime rate in Pakistan is very high due to which people are restricted to their places. There are many reasons of these crimes; government should take step to eradicate these evils from society. And should support people in problems.

Smuggling should be restricted. And the shops should be checked. Government should formulate medical research department to check the amount of alcohol in medicines.

Now a day’sbidi, hukka and sheesha are a fashion statement especially for teenagers. Media should spread awareness on effects of theseevils. These are life threatening things, the stores where these are available should be banned by government and the shop owner should be punished.