 Dear students, in this module we are going to discuss the property as type of crime. So crimes which are committed for property refer to the criminal offences that involve the theft or the destruction of someone else's property. Particularly speaking, you cannot harm someone's property, whether it is valuable or invaluable. Valuable in a sense that the property can be someone's land or someone's objects, like someone's mobile phone or someone's car or someone's house, all these things come in the form of property. But generally, when we typically define the property, we also have to see how that property is legally defined. So in any justice system, the legal repercussions are due to that legal definition. So examples of property crime include burglary, theft and arson. You cannot trespass on any property without its owner's permission. If you do this, then potentially it is considered a criminal or violent act. So burglary is such a theft that is done by trespassing on someone's property. Similarly, theft, car theft, mobile phone theft, mobile snatching, all these things come in the form of property crime. Pakistan has the high rate of property crime. Unfortunately, with some estimates suggesting that there are over 100,000 reported cases of theft each year. In recent past, you must have seen in the news that street crimes have grown a lot, in which there is vehicle theft, mobile snatching, or other precious objects are snatched from people. The ornaments that are stolen are stolen. So all these things come in the form of property crimes. Although the mechanisms of social control, particularly the informal mechanisms of social control are very strong, and we saw that in the past, the mechanisms of social control have been of great help to us to control the deviancy. But unfortunately, in recent past, because our resources have become very limited, there is a lot of poverty, inflation, and a lot of inflation. So due to this, the property crimes have also started to increase exponentially. Factors that contribute to the prevalence of property crime in Pakistan can include poverty, lack of security, and corruption in law enforcement. The corruption in law enforcement itself becomes a major factor in which people are forced to do property crimes or are motivated. If law enforcement agencies start dealing with this act strictly, and start dealing with the board strictly, in which the justice system is not a class-based justice system, rather it is an equality-based justice system, so property crimes can be minimized or reduced based on this. So in a nutshell, these property crimes in Pakistan are prevalent for majorly for the reasons that law enforcement is not active and not effective, and in addition to that, due to poverty and inflation.