Criminal issues

Abstract

This chapter analyses the crime-victimization trends in Dingli. Crime serves as a gauge through which a community assesses that ‘social glue’ factor entitled social cohesion. Any research on society requires a study of the interactions taking place within the community, across time and space. This study process entails understanding the internal and external interactions within and between the Dingli individuals, organisations and external agents. Whilst everyday interactions deal with daily norms, extraneous incidences to normal interactionism create abnormalities that reduce the social cohesion which serves as the glue that makes the community tick and helps to maintain social equilibrium. Crime is such a factor and causes a major intrusion into daily norms.