Urban crime:-A study of dibrugarh town in Assam

In this paper an attempt has been made to depict the trend and pattern of urban crime in Dibrugarh town. Crime is a complex social problem. Crime is an inevitable part of human society, crime exists and increasing in every society. It is generally believed that the criminals are not born but the circumstances and social surroundings make a man criminal. However, taking the social point of view crimes as is evident from the fact that the rate of crime is higher in larger cities and in urbanized areas as has been proved by many empirical studies. But due to some causes crime become rampant in society, such as urbanization, migration from neighboring places, increasing slum areas, poverty, unemployment etc. but there are many other determinates alongside urbanization closely related to it, that have significant impact in the rising trend of crime in urbanized areas. But very often, the question is to why there are more crimes in cities as compared to rural areas. It could be due to the fact that rural crimes are not properly reported, so to which a common perception perpetuates that the crime rate is more in cities.