Optimizing the Eradication of Gangster Crimes in Cases of Violence in the City of Semarang

Abstract

The emergence of new forms of crime, often referred to as white collar crime, does not immediately eliminate conventional forms of crime such as fraud, embezzlement, rape, assault, robbery, murder, theft and theft with violence. Among the conventional forms of crime mentioned above, there are a number of crimes that have the potential to cause disturbances to security, order and tranquility or cause unrest in society. One of these crimes is street crime committed by a number of people who are members of a community. The type of legal research used is analytical descriptive. In this non-doctrinal legal research, law is conceptualized as a manifestation of the symbolic meanings of social actors as seen in the interactions between them. That the real reality of life does not exist in the empirical world which is also the world of observation, does not appear in the form of objectively patterned and structured behavior (let alone normative) and therefore can be measured to produce quantitative data. obstacles inoptimizing the eradication of cases of violence committed by gangsters in the city of Semarang, which consists of. The obstacle is the absence of criminal penalties that can create a deterrent effect for both the founders and organizers of gangster groups and for gangster members who commit violent crimes in society.