Crime and Culture in Relation to Juvenile in Tanzania
61 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2018
Date Written: November 28, 2018
Abstract
To conceive crimeless society is totally impossible. For those who believe in the Holy Bible even in the Heaven, a devil who was an angel acted against GOD and was punished. There is no society without crime/criminals. Professor Hart argued that, human beings are vulnerable; hence need a rule of law to maintain the society. In fact, everyone owes a certain duties to his fellow men and the same to the society. This respect is what regulates the acts of people in the society. But there are some people who deviate from these duties; it is from this concept that states had to regulate the people.
One can take many different stances when asked to determine the causes of criminal activity. One area of research that has been gaining popularity views crime as a product of the culture or subculture to which one belongs, rather than strictly blaming it on individual differences. In other words, enculturation plays an important role in the development of criminal behavior.
Among of the people, who are highly affected with this mixture or interconnection between crime and culture, are the young generation. Biologically children adapt the environment which they grow. This means that if a child grow up in a society which practice female genital mutilation, automatically such child become accustomed with such customs and traditions of the said society, whether such customs or traditions are not acceptable by the law or not , hence continues to develop such criminal activity if not controlled earlier.
This paper tries to show the connection between these two concepts, crime and culture, and how the young generations are affected, either being involved on the criminal subculture activity or being hurt and humiliated by such activity.
Keywords: crime, juvenile offender, culture, child laws
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