The Collective Violent Crimes of Begal Motors in Criminological Perspective

Abstract

Nowadays, one of the crimes that is trending topic in Indonesia is a violent crime that committed in a groups, which done by young people and an adult in committing a crime using a motor cycle, it called the motorcycle robber or begal motor. It committed are generally conducted either openly or silently operation on the highway or in public places, perpetrators are usually two or more people to commit crimes such as speeding on the streets of highway, a wild race on highway, a fight between groups, feasting while drinking alcohol and using drugs, armed robbery, robbing, raping, torturing, snatching, theft with violence, tampering with other people, killing, disturbing public order and some other actions that can be categorized as a crime. Various factors that causes a person to commit such crimes, among others; economic factors, family factors, educational factors, media factors, religious factors. These factors are not independent factors, but between the factors with other factors are affect each other. The efforts that have been done for preventing and combating violent crime of collective begal motor, either in the form of efforts Pre-Entif, Preventive and Refressif by the police and other interested, but the crime remains the case, so the effort must be done even be improved by involving all levels of society.

Keywords: Crime, Violence, Robber, Pre-Entif, Preventive, Refressif.