Property delicts as forms of criminality and economic-social criminogenic factors

Abstract

Criminality is a set of social phenomena, which threaten universal social values and they are sanctioned by criminal law. As a complex social phenomenon, criminality is determined by various factors related to the offender, criminal offense and social conditions. This paper defines criminogenic factors and it considers criminality as an individual act and social phenomenon. Moreover, this paper deals with economic-social criminogenic factors, particularly economic determinants of social deviation, poverty as a criminogenic factor and abundance criminality. In addition, this paper considers forms of criminality, that is criminal phenomenology as the part of criminology (dealing with forms of criminality) with the focus on property delicts. Property delicts are the type of criminal offenses that threaten (unlawfully appropriated or damaged) property rights of citizens and other legal entities, and they belong to classic (general) criminality. According to their scope they are the most frequent type of criminal offenses, and at the same time they represent delinquency with the greatest degree of professionalization. This paper pays special attention to the analysis of the following types of property delicts: classic delicts, delicts with an element of physical violence, fraudulent delicts and delicts without the motive of self-interest as the type of property delicts. Furthermore, there is a short analysis of activities and results, which the police have achieved in detection, proving and criminal processing of criminal offenses related to classic (general) criminality, that is property delicts.

Keywords

• criminality
• criminology
• criminal offense
• criminogenic factors
• economic-social factors
• forms of criminality
• classic (general) criminality
• property delicts