ABSTRACT
To explain the causes of crime, it is important to know who is committing crime, who is being victimized, and when and where crimes are being committed. This information can also be utilized by criminal justice practitioners to evaluate the effectiveness of crime-fi ghting techniques and to discover matters requiring greater attention. Similarly, a portrait of criminal activity conveys information about sore points in the social system, and how the system is failing to persuade people to act in legal ways. Unless you are persuaded that
genes are destiny, that is, that criminal activity is predestined for some people, a logical deduction is that each society creates its own criminals.
