Crimes Committed By Urban Migrant Workers And Its Prevention

Urban migrant workers, the elite of rural area, contribute a lot to the development of the cities owing to the cheapness of their labor force. Unexpectedly, some of them committed crime in the course of their living in the city. Some people consider that the swarm urban migrant workers migrant into the city is the preliminary reason why social security is deteriorated gradually. However, it is the combination of illegal activities of the citizens and that of urban migrant workers that causes the social situation worse. There is no exception for most scholars who attribute the current situation to the swarm of the urban migrant workers into the city when they analyze the crime taking place among the floating population, the nonnative population and urban migrant workers of the city. As a result, it is easy to draw an arbitrary conclusion that to treat the three mentioned as the same thing, although the fact is not like that.Generally speaking, the cause of their crime boils down to the pressure of life, the ignorance of law, the unlawful protect for right the shortage of correct opinion on how to get rich, the instigation by the evil-man , the seduce by the unhealthy environment, the side effect of the city "anonymous" effect, the discrimination against urban migrant workers, and so on.The crime of urban migrant workers, does not innately feature with trespass and violence in comparison with that of the citizens. In sum their crime carries special characteristics, such as the crime with relatively evident upsurge and fleeing, the gang crimes with regional and relative, and the composition with the larger part of strong young man who did not accept enough education.It is nothing strange that the trespass between the citizens and urban migrant workers in the crime of trespass to property, on the other hand, the rate of violent crime between urban migrant workers is much higher than that of the citizens against urban migrant workers, still less urban migrant workers against citizens. It is out of question that urban migrant workers are the main victims of their crimes.As a matter of fact, lots of crime committed by urban migrant workers can be prevented. Here are several measures we could take into consideration, for example, strengthening the law education for peasant, setting up "public work", intensifying the supervision on the payment for the urban migrant workers, propagandizing the concept of how to get rich through honest and hardworking, focusing on the work to collect the information concerned with them, pinpointing the inter-regional cooperation instead of the hard wanted for arrest, abolishing the discriminatory rules against them, encouraging people not to look down them, hiring the couple workers, strengthening the management on house lease and skirts of the city, bringing the initiatives of masses into full play to prevent crime, paying more attention to the leisure activities of them in order to make sure that they can lead an ordered and healthy life, and so on.I would be honored if this paper could help to prevent the crime of urban migrant workers, maintain social security and stabilization and construct harmonious society to a certain extent.