CRIME IN PAKISTAN

Causes and Street Cyber Current Preventions

Effects Crime Crime Happenings

Zoha Fatima Saad Furqan Masooma

Junaid Safdar Rafiq Zahid Kaiser
WHAT IS CRIME?
 CAUSES OF CRIME

Unemployment  Poverty
Illiteracy  Emotional disturbance
Marriage  Lack of religious control
 Drugs
Economic disputes
 Family
Imposed leadership
 EFFECTS OF CRIME
Economic
Continuous
Decrease
Costs
Loss ofto the
in
Depression
instability in
life/property
fear
tourism
community
Pakistan
 WHAT IS STREET CRIME AND ITS TYPES
Street crimes include robbery, rape, murder,
graffiti, vandalism, drug trafficking,
prostitution etc.
Karachi one of the major cities and former
capital of Pakistan was once known for its
lights but now is renowned for it’s crimes.
Pickpocketing has become a norm in
Pakistan.
 TYPES OF STREET CRIMES

 ATM thefts too are on rise in

Pakistan.
 ‘34000 mobile phones have been
snatched in Karachi this year so
far.’-The Nation.
 Life is not considered precious.
 TYPES OF STREET CRIMES

‘A woman is raped every 2 hours in

Pakistan’. – The Nation.
‘Pakistan has 6.7 million drug users.’-
United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime
Vandalism in a common occurrence in
What is Cyber
Crime?
It is the crime committed using a computer/technology as its
primary means of commission

 More than 5,500 cyber crime complaints and 209 arrests in Pakistan last
year
 COMMON TYPES OF CYBER CRIME

Identity Theft
Hacking
Cyber Bullying
Cyber-Stalking
 HACKING
 Where someone gains unauthorized access of another Computer/Gadget
 To gain the victim’s personal and sensitive information (w/o aware)
 Blackmail
Identity Theft
 Gain information about victim’s bank account eg. Credit Cards (by
tricking or hacking) to draw money from their account or to buy things
online.
CYBER STALKING
 Victim is spammed and harassed with inappropriate messages
 Not only females

Cyber Bullying
 Form of Bullying using electronic means which targets the victim
 Abusive or threatening messages, publicly embarrassing(cruel info/ photos/ ss)
 Common among teenagers
Current perspective of crime
in Pakistan
 CRIMES DURING CURRENT GOVERNMENT

Significant rise in street crime

Child abuse remain disturbingly common in Pakistan

Cybercrime (hacking)

Kidnapping
 CURRENT GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO LOWER
CRIME

Process of accountability

Pakistan citizen portal app launched

Strict Punishments for cyber crime

Death penalty for convicts of child abuse

 CRIME COMPARISON

Crime 2017 2018 2019

Murder 8235 8241 8130 Fall
Kidnapping 18363 20060 22611 Rise
Robbery 12458 14914 15689 Rise
Burglary 13833 14646 16234 Rise
Cyber crime 1280 1414 1569 Rise
Child abuse 3445 3657 3690 Rise
Corruption 981 1016 781 Fall
Preventing Crime
 SITUATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION

Gaining an understanding of the criminal setting and the situations that

allow certain crimes
Introducing mechanisms to reduce the opportunities for particular crimes

Focus on crime prevention rather than punishment

Make criminal activities less fascinating to offenders

A criminal act is usually committed if the offender feels that

there is little or no risk involved in doing so
 CYBER CRIME

Increasing the effort to commit the crime

Increasing the risks of committing the crime

Reducing the rewards of committing the crime

Reducing any provocation for committing the crime

Removing any excuses for committing the crime

 APPLICATIONS TO SEXUAL ABUSE

Theory of Child Sexual Abuse, put forward by Smallbone et al.

Increasing understanding about abuse and how and where it happens

Accepting the possibility that abuse can take place within the home and family

Accurately assessing the risks posed to your own children

Lowering known risks