Crime and Urbanization: Revisited Malaysian Case

Urbanization is the social process whereby cities grow and their societies become urban. However, rapid urbanization contributes other affect and crimes in one of them. This paper aims to discuss the cause and effect between urbanization and crime, the type of crimes in urban area as well a discussion on how urbanization process lead to crime. Discussion on the suggestion to curb the crimes also becomes one of the themes in this paper. These seem to be fit with the effort to reducing crimes that become one of the main agenda in NKRA, introduced by our current administration. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies(cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia