Classification of crime in modern society.

What do you think if you heard about the word ‘Crime’? In these days, newspaper and TV news are full of various crimes which happened yesterday. All of us are already tired because of horrible crimes. However, it doesn’t mean we can ignore what media reports. That’s because new type of crimes are appearing. Because these new crimes are not only dangerous to people but harmful to society, so we need to classify and recognize the dangerousness about two types of crimes.

In past days, almost reported crimes were related to physical violence. In general, these crimes usually cause physical injury. So when we think about the physical crime, most of us imagine some weapons, blood or wounded victims. Such as firearm accidents, assaults, slaughters and vandalism can be included in this type of crimes. This type of crime is very harmful because it can cause loss of someone’s life.

However, as societies are segmentalized, some criminals who have high knowledge have begin to take advantage of their intellectual assets. They are usually white collars and high educated. Their work and income are also stable. So it seems like there are no reasons for them to commit a crime. The only one thing they don’t have is morality. With moral hazard, they commit serious crimes such as bribery, embezzlement or industrial spy. These crimes are as harmful as the before types of crimes. They don’t have threating to life, but these crimes can destroy rules of society. And the fact that if intellectual crimes are succeeds, these crimes can be imitated in many ways is also unignorable.

We cannot help omitting serious crimes when we discuss society and we all know that crimes will not disappear in society. We also can’t prevent criminal from committing a crime. However we can reduce the number of crimes. By perceiving morality as a major tool, we can come up to bright society and prevent new type of crimes from happening. If we don’t, nobody knows that new types of horrible crime will appear.