C H A P T E R - 2
INTRODUCTION:
Total
cognizable crime under IPC sections reported in A.P. State during the year
2001 is 1,17,959
If
we consider only the grand total
of bodily offences , property offences
and white collar offences under the
IPC the total crime will be 57148 in
2000 and 60614 in 2001. The other
IPC cases are 58,545 in number.
The District wise percentage of
the IPC crime with respect to the
bodily, property and white collar
offences is given in the tables that
follow.
GENERAL
TRENDS:
A study of
the total cognizable crime over the past ten years (Details given in
chapter 14) indicates that there has been a notable reduction in
the incidence of “conventional” crime such as dacoities, robberies etc; and
there is a substantial increase in the incidence of White Collar Crime
such as Cheatings, Breach of Trust.
Crime
against women has shown an increase
over the decade and the reasons are
mainly the dwindling of joint family system, better awareness and better
financial independence among women.
PREDICTIONS:
In the next few years, it is
expected that the conventional crime
would drop further and Economic
Offences, Terrorist Crimes and
Crime and L & O problems
resulting from urbanization will substantially
increase. Cyber Crimes are also
expected to increase, but only slightly because the computerization in
India especially in the banking and
other related financial institutions is still in the infancy stage.